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On Sunday, March 16, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that he had received hundreds of alleged gang members who were deported from the United States, including 238 members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and 23 members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13. Bukele, in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, agreed to incarcerate the deportees in El Salvador for at least a year. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deportations invoking the Alien Enemy Act, which was passed by Congress in the late 18th Century. And the deportations are setting off heated discussions in the United States' legal community, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others saying that the deportees weren't given due process and expressing fears that some of them may not have been members of either Tren de Aragua or the MS-13. |
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