Lawyers of several Venezuelan migrants who are detained in a detention center in Texas said they thought that their customers were “at imminent risks” to be expelled in El Salvador by virtue of the Extraterrestrial Enemies Act.
“The petitioners have learned that the BlueBonnet officers distributed opinions under the law on extraterrestrial enemies, in English only, who designate Venezuelan men for the withdrawal of the AEA, and told men that the moves are imminent and will occur this evening or tomorrow”.
The statements of lawyers were filed for hours after a federal judge in Texas denied the ACLU’s request for a temporary ban order, affirming in a prescription Thursday afternoon that the ACLU “had not responded to his burden to show a substantial threat of imminent and irreparable injuries”.
The judge said that because the government had previously declared that the authorities would not eliminate the petitioners during the dispute of the case, the ACLU did not “did not make a sufficient performance at this stage to convince the court that the government will violate its representations for this purpose”.
After several lawyers have submitted declarations indicating that several of their customers had been informed by immigration and customs’ application agents that they were sent to Salvador, ACLU has filed a new emergency request for a temporary prohibition order.
“In the hours following the prescription of this court on the Tro, the advocate of the lawyer Brown, MGF, was approached by ice officers, accused of being a member of Tren of Aragua, and said to sign papers in English,” said ACLU lawyers. “Ice told him that the newspapers” came from the president and that he will be expelled even if he did not sign it. “”
In a statement, Michelle Brane, Executive Director of Together and Free, said that Luis Yoender Mercado’s sister, owned at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas, called her sister and informed her that the police said to a group of venezuelans they were sent to El Salvador.
The exterior of the terrorist containment center as Kristi Noem internal security secretary arrives in Tecoleca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025.
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Brane also linked a Tiktok video in his statement, which seems to be a video call between a family member and a detainee who showed photos of an opinion he had received by saying that he was going to be removed.
In the video, the man said in Spanish: “We need help … They say that we are enemies … The members of Tren de Aragua. They say that we are going to be deleted.”
In the context of its repression of immigration, the Trump administration invoked last month the law on extraterrestrial enemies – a war authority used to withdraw non -citizens with little or no regular procedure – to expel two plans of plants of so -called migrants migrants to the mega -prison of Cecot in El Salvador by affirming that the Gang Trena de Venezuel is a “criminal state Venezuel.
