Less than two weeks have passed since notices accusing scores of Venezuelan detainees at the facility of belonging to the infamous gang Tren de Aragua were issued to them.
Accordingly, they were deported in accordance with a wartime statute that the Trump administration used earlier this year to support the transfer of 238 alleged gang members to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT jail.
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has called for prisoners to “never leave” and labels them terrorists.
At least seven of the detainees’ families insist they weren’t gang members and that they wouldn’t sign the paperwork.Despite their objections,
The American Civil Liberties Union and family members say these men were picked up and put on a bus on Good Friday that was headed to neighboring Abilene Regional Airport.
Amidst a fierce legal struggle concerning the legitimacy of deportations, extraordinary film showed a convoy traveling to the airport before the bus was turned around and returned to the detention facility.
