President Donald Trump meets on Monday with El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, a leader praised by the US government for opening the country’s prison system for alleged gang and detainees that Trump wants to leave the United States.
The Republican government deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador under the law of foreign enemies from 1798, including a Maryland resident that the administration recognized to have deported by mistake.
The US president, who took office in January promising to reform US immigration policy, found Bukele a “partner” for this effort.
Migrants El Salvador accepts from Washington are housed in a maximum security prison that, according to critics, practices human rights abuses.
The Republican will meet Bukele at 12 noon (Brasília time) at the White House.
“I think he’s doing a fantastic job and is solving a lot of problems we have and we wouldn’t really be able to solve in terms of costs,” Trump told reporters on Sunday (12) about Bukele, referring to the cost of keeping the detainees in El Salvador.
The American continued to say that, “he [Bukele] It has been amazing. We have very bad people in that prison. People who should never have been allowed to enter our country. Assassins, drug traffickers, some of the worst people in the world are in that prison. And he is able to do that. ”
Asked if he had concerns about the alleged human rights violations in Mega-Prison, Trump said no.
“I don’t see that. I don’t see that,” he said.
On Saturday (12), the United States deported to El Salvador another 10 people who claim to be gang members, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called the alliance between Trump and Bukele a “an example of security and prosperity in our hemisphere.”
Lawyers and relatives of the migrants detained in El Salvador say they are not gang members and had no opportunity to contest the US government’s statement.
The Trump government claims to have examined the migrants to ensure they belonged to the Aragua Tren, which classifies as a terrorist organization.
Last month, after a judge decided that flights carrying migrants processed under the law of foreign enemies should return to the US, Bukele wrote “ops… too late” on social networks, alongside images showing men being taken from a plane in the dead of night.
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maryland resident sent to the so -called El Salvador terrorist confinement center on March 15, despite an order that protected him from deportation, attracted special attention.
The US Supreme Court maintained an order from Judge Paula Xinis instructing the government to “facilitate and effect” its return, but stated that the term “doing” was unclear and could exceed its authority.
Trump spoke to reporters on Friday (11) that his government would bring the man back if the Supreme Court so determined it.
However, in a court document on Sunday (13), the government said it was not required to help Abego Garcia leave prison in El Salvador.
This content was originally published in Trump gathers with president of El Salvador amid deportations on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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