Trump Administration May Be About To Send More Venezuelans To El Salvador Prison [View all]

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In one case, a petition filed by immigrant detainees said the government’s supposed evidence for his gang membership included emojis he used online.


Paul Blumenthal Apr 18, 2025, 01:01 PM EDT

Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan immigrants detained at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, filed emergency habeas petitions on Friday after reports from inside the prison indicated the Trump administration was about to remove them, potentially to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador.

The undocumented Venezuelan immigrants held at Bluebonnet were given documents telling them they would be deported and pressured to sign forms affirming their alleged membership in the gang Tren de Aragua, according to a legal filing asking a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas to block their removals.


The habeas petition filed on Friday in the case of A.A.R.P. v. Trump seeks class-wide protection for all detainees at Bluebonnet who the administration claims are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

On March 14, President Donald Trump declared that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was engaged in an “invasion” of the U.S. and that all members of the gang 14 years old and up would be classified as “alien enemies” subject to summary removal without ordinary legal protections. The administration removed over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador on March 15, largely under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.

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