They are already being held in the Salvadoran Maximum Security Prison of the Nayib Bukele Government the 238 members of the Venezuelan band “Tren de Aragua”despite the order of a federal judge from the United States to suspend for 14 days any deportation based on the Law of Foreign Enemies dating from 1798. This rule, used in the First and Second World War,EU designed to be invoked in times of war or in case of invasion of the United States. In this case, the Trump administration will pay up to 6 million dollars to the Government of El Salvador for imprisoning them for at least a year.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, justified this morning his decision by qualifying them as “monsters” and pointing to his predecessor, Joe Biden, as the sole responsible for being there. “We are in times of war because Biden accepted millions of people, many of them criminals. It is an invasion. They are criminals, murderers, high -level drug traffickers, drug capos”Trump explained to journalists aboard the Air Force One. The case, according to the White House, could even reach the Supreme Court.
The Train of Aragua –a criminal band that is charged with murders, robberies, drug trafficking, extortion or trafficking in people– It has expanded its activities to the United States, but also to countries such as Colombia, Chile or Peru. Last February, the newly released American Government of Trump described this terrorist organization band, ensuring that its criminal activities are a serious threat to national security.
Caracas accuses the United States of “criminalizing” Venezuelan migrants dusting its archaic law foreign enemies.
