In remarks to the press yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted the Trump regime violated the due process of at least some of the Venezuelan immigrants sent to an El Salvador concentration camp earlier this month. The Trump regime illegally sent the men to El Salvador on March 15th by incorrectly using the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act (which requires a Congressional declaration of war on a foreign country or government) and directly violated a federal court order for the planes transporting the Venezuelan migrants to turn around and return to the United States. The regime also lied in multiple official statements prior to Rubio's and claimed all of the Venezuelans were members of the gang Tren de Aragua.
Here is a partial transcript from Rubio's remarks to the press (Source):
QUESTION: (Inaudible) some of the people sent down to El Salvador to the prison weren’t actually gang members, but that, for example, there was a (inaudible) with a tattoo (inaudible) supporting autism, people with autism, but it looked like a gang tattoo to the immigration agent and then (inaudible) mistakes made. How do you address that?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, ultimately that – all of that was the work of the Department of Homeland Security. They’ve identified them. I have confidence in the assessments that they’ve made. They’re – but I can’t speak to any one of the individual cases because we’re not involved in compiling them. But I have no reason – in fact, I have confidence that they compiled a good list. And if we have an opportunity to send more, we will – gang members, MS-13, whatever we can send.
QUESTION: (Inaudible) isn’t it an issue of due process? I mean, was that raised with President Bukele? Do these people have a right to appeal in some way?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Every single one of them was deportable for reasons even beyond the Alien Enemies Act. The MS-13 as well. They were all deportable. Many of these people had orders of deportation already and were either in custody or had been recently apprehended. So every single person that was sent there was deportable.
Unfortunately, if they’re of Venezuelan descent, up until this week the Venezuelans were not picking anybody up. They were not allowing anybody to go back. They’re the only country in the hemisphere that was refusing to accept anyone. They have restarted those suddenly, and hopefully they’ll continue and then we won’t have to use El Salvador.
More on this and specific examples of the violation of due process to follow.
One of the most egregious examples is the case of Andry Hernandez.