US deports another 10 gang members to El Salvador

14/4/2025 6:15

The U.S. has deported

another 10 people that it alleges are gang members to El

Salvador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday, a day

before that country's president is due to visit the White House.



"Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de

Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador,"

Rubio said in an X post.



The alliance between President Donald Trump and El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele "has become an example for security and

prosperity in our hemisphere," Rubio added.



Trump is due to meet Bukele at the White House on Monday.



Trump said on Saturday he was looking forward to meeting

Bukele and praised him for taking "enemy aliens" from the United

States. He said the two countries were working closely to

"eradicate terrorist organizations."



Administration officials have repeatedly made public

statements alleging that detained immigrants are gang members

that they have not backed up in court.



The Trump administration has deported hundreds of

Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien

Enemies Act.



Lawyers and relatives of the migrants held in El Salvador

say they are not gang members and had no opportunity to contest

the U.S. government assertion that they were. The Trump

administration says it vetted migrants to ensure they belonged

to Tren de Aragua, which it labels a terrorist organization.



The deportations have been challenged in federal court. The

U.S. Supreme Court said the U.S. government must give sufficient

notice to immigrant detainees to allow them to contest their

deportations. It did not say how those already in El Salvador

could seek judicial review of their removals.