07-07-2025
El Salvador says for first time that U.S. controls fate of jailed deportees
Salvadoran officials have said for the first time that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants who have been detained for months in a megaprison in El Salvador remain under the responsibility of the United States, according to a court document filed Monday.
The acknowledgment was contained in a filing by the migrants lawyers in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. It marks a significant contradiction to the Trump administration's repeated claims that it lacked the authority to bring back the migrants because they are no longer in U.S. custody.
