Source: Common Dreams
“A Monday court filing by attorneys for migrants being held in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison contained what one expert called a ‘huge admission’ by Salvadoran officials that casts new doubt on the Trump administration’s claims that it can’t bring back the 130 men it sent to the facility. In a filing submitted to Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., lawyers for four of the migrants included a document that the Salvadoran government had sent to the United Nations in response to an inquiry about their detention at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Contrary to the Trump administration’s claims … officials representing the Bukele government said in the filing that ‘the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters.'” (07/08/25)