Some were sent back because El Salvador would not accept women, according to a court document.
At least 10 illegal immigrants who were recently deported by U.S. authorities to El Salvador were returned to the United States, according to new court filings.
Nine women on one of the planes that landed in El Salvador were kept on board the aircraft and ultimately transported back to America, a Venezuelan national with the initials S.Z.F.R. said in one of the documents that was filed with the federal court in Washington on March 24.
The woman said that after a refueling stop, the plane was said to have landed in El Salvador. The men were led off the plane, but the women were not.
“I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S.,” the woman said.
She said that all of the women on the plane were taken to Laredo, Texas, where they had been before departing for El Salvador.
The sworn declaration was entered in a legal case involving the use of the Alien Enemies Act by the Trump administration. After President Donald Trump signed an order declaring an invasion of the United States by the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua, U.S. authorities transported some illegal immigrants suspected of being part of the gang to El Salvador, which entered an agreement with the United States to accept criminal deportees for incarceration.
Venezuelans in immigration custody sued, alleging the proclamation was illegally being used against nationals of a country that is not at war with America.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 15 blocked the administration from deporting alleged gang members solely under the Alien Enemies Act. A U.S. official said that two planes were already outside U.S. airspace when the judge’s order was released. A third plane did depart after the order but contained illegal immigrants who had been ordered removed by U.S. judges, the official said.
