San Salvador, El Salvador-the lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government presented a legal action on Monday in El Salvador aimed at releasing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are detained in a saving prison of maximum security.
Jaime Ortega, who says he represents 30 of imprisoned Venezuelans, said they presented Habeas Corpus’s request before the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court. He said that by extension they requested that all Venezuelans arrested in El Salvador be applied.
The maneuver essentially forces the government to demonstrate that someone’s arrest was justified.
The Salvadoran government has kept silent about the state of Venezuelan prisoners since the United States government sent them more than a week ago, despite the verbal order of a federal judge of the United States to change the planes.
The Trump administration is using an eighteenth -century war law to justify the shipment of Venezuelans, who says they were members of the Trena de Aragua gang, which the administration declared an invasive force.
“We represent at this time 30 Venezuelans who have given us the power to act, but by extension, we are asking for habeas corpus for the rest of the Venezuelan citizens who are detained in our country,” Ortega said.
Salvador Ríos, another firm’s lawyer, said they were hired by the Venezuelan government and the immigrant families committee in Venezuela. He said that the Venezuelans who represent are not members of the Aragua train and had emigrated from their country and “have no criminal record.”
In February, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, to imprison the deportees of the United States or even US citizens who fulfilled prison sentences. The United States is paying El Salvador to keep them for what both governments say it is cost savings.
But lawyers in both countries have questioned the legal justification for sending migrants who have not been convicted or in many cases even accused of a crime to prison in a foreign country.
