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In court documents filed on Monday, El Salvador officials stated that the US maintains exclusive control over deportees imprisoned at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, directly contradicting Trump administration claims that the US has no authority to return unlawfully deported individuals. If true, this suggests that the Trump administration openly disobeyed a Supreme Court order issued in April to return an unlawfully deported man to the US.
The document’s claims also contradict the Trump administration’s claim that individuals imprisoned in El Salvador are not subject to the right to due process guaranteed by Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution because they are outside of US jurisdiction.
The evidence was filed in the context of ongoing litigation in the federal US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the deportation of hundreds of migrants that are currently being imprisoned in CECOT without trial. The claim from Salvadoran officials was sourced from El Salvador’s response to a UN Report on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances that was launched on behalf of the families of four individuals imprisoned at the site.
US and Salvadoran officials have each claimed that the other state has jurisdiction over the US deportees imprisoned at CECOT. The Trump administration has argued that the individuals are outside of US jurisdiction as soon as they leave US territory. El Salvador, on the other hand, claims that CECOT is completely subject to US jurisdiction by virtue of a bilateral treaty with the US granting it jurisdiction to imprison individuals in El Salvador.
CECOT has been toured by multiple Republican members of Congress, although Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was refused entry to the facility to speak with unlawfully deported man Ábrego García, whom the US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to return to the US.
CECOT was constructed in 2023 amidst a Salvadoran government crackdown on gang violence and is operated by the government of El Salvador. As of 2024, the government reported that 14,500 people were imprisoned at the site, but an updated number was not provided to the Guardian “for security reasons.” The Trump administration has sent at least 200 people to be imprisoned at the site to date amidst an ongoing crackdown on immigration.
Rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch have accused El Salvador of extensive human rights violations in its prison system, including crowded conditions that have forced inmates to sleep on the floor or standing.
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The document’s claims also contradict the Trump administration’s claim that individuals imprisoned in El Salvador are not subject to the right to due process guaranteed by Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution because they are outside of US jurisdiction.
The evidence was filed in the context of ongoing litigation in the federal US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the deportation of hundreds of migrants that are currently being imprisoned in CECOT without trial. The claim from Salvadoran officials was sourced from El Salvador’s response to a UN Report on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances that was launched on behalf of the families of four individuals imprisoned at the site.
US and Salvadoran officials have each claimed that the other state has jurisdiction over the US deportees imprisoned at CECOT. The Trump administration has argued that the individuals are outside of US jurisdiction as soon as they leave US territory. El Salvador, on the other hand, claims that CECOT is completely subject to US jurisdiction by virtue of a bilateral treaty with the US granting it jurisdiction to imprison individuals in El Salvador.
CECOT has been toured by multiple Republican members of Congress, although Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was refused entry to the facility to speak with unlawfully deported man Ábrego García, whom the US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to return to the US.
CECOT was constructed in 2023 amidst a Salvadoran government crackdown on gang violence and is operated by the government of El Salvador. As of 2024, the government reported that 14,500 people were imprisoned at the site, but an updated number was not provided to the Guardian “for security reasons.” The Trump administration has sent at least 200 people to be imprisoned at the site to date amidst an ongoing crackdown on immigration.
Rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch have accused El Salvador of extensive human rights violations in its prison system, including crowded conditions that have forced inmates to sleep on the floor or standing.
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