El Salvador, CECOT and Trump
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AlterNet on MSNTrump admin 'exposed as liars' after El Salvador makes major admission to United NationsEl Salvador has informed the United Nations that it holds no legal responsibility for the more than 200 Venezuelan men whom President Donald Trump ordered to be sent to its maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison earlier this year — a claim that directly contradicts repeated assertions from the Trump administration.
The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.
A federal judge appointed by President Trump is demanding answers from the DHS in light of a key admission on legal responsibility for CECOT prisoners.
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A court in El Salvador has sentenced three former military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the civil war