Our reporting shows otherwise.

Arianna Coghill

... Mother Jones‘ reporting suggests that the Trump administration is detaining people without due process on the flimsiest evidence, including their tattoos ...

Since March, Donald Trump has been using the Alien Enemies Act to give himself the power to send migrants to El Salvador under the loosest of suspicion that they’re connected to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that the president has designated as a “global terrorist group.” Despite claiming to have a strict vetting process of identifying alleged TdA members, the Trump administration has provided little to no evidence that this is the case ...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-supreme-court-alien-enemies-act-venezuela-el-salvador-migrants-tattoos/

When asked by The Associated Press whether detainees could be indefinitely held in El Salvador's CECOT prison, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem declined to clarify

Pedro Camacho / Published Mar 29 2025, 8:00 AM EDT

Venezuelans deported under the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act and detained in El Salvador's high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) no longer appear in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's online detainee locator and the U.S. has not provided evidence of their alleged gang affiliations according to a new report from The Associated Press.

The detainees, alleged by the U.S. government to be members of the "Tren de Aragua" gang, have also not appeared before a judge in El Salvador and are not serving sentences, raising questions about when and how they could ever be freed.

Families and legal representatives argue that the detainees have no criminal records and were denied due process before deportation. Attorney Jaime Ortega, representing 30 of the detainees, has filed a habeas corpus petition with El Salvador's Supreme Court, requesting their release. "By extension, we ask that this apply to all Venezuelans detained in El Salvador," Ortega told AP ...

https://www.latintimes.com/deported-venezuelans-vanish-us-records-remain-jailed-without-trial-el-salvador-579419

By David Catanese
Updated March 28, 2025 6:01 PM

President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law. A brief filed by Acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which imposed a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from facilitating more deportation flights using that law because it failed to include a process allowing the accused gang members to challenge their designation ...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article303007009.html