President Donald Trump shared a video on Sunday of illegal immigrant gang members arriving at a major prison in El Salvador following the deportation of over 250 illegal immigrants over the weekend.
A video showing the arrival of the illegal immigrant gang members at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador was shared by the Trump administration’s Rapid Response 47 team on X, formerly Twitter. The video shows the illegal immigrants being escorted off a plane with a heavy law enforcement presence, the illegal immigrants being transported to the prison in El Salvador, and the illegal immigrants entering the high-security prison facility.
In a post accompanying the video on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “These are the monsters sent into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats. How dare they! Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen in the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership. We will not forget!”
The Daily Wire reported that the deportation of over 250 illegal immigrants to El Salvador came after the Trump administration recently secured an agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to detain illegal immigrants in El Salvador’s prison.
Bill Melugin, a Fox News correspondent, reported that a Trump administration official confirmed 261 illegal immigrants were deported to El Salvador. The official told Melugin that 137 of the illegal immigrants were removed from the U.S. under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 were removed through the normal immigration process, 21 were MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, and 2 were “special cases” as the United States returned two “MS-13 ringleaders” to El Salvador.
According to The New York Post, the arrival of the illegal immigrants in El Salvador came hours after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime powers of the “Alien Enemies Acts of 1798” to remove illegal immigrants from the United States without court hearings.
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In a statement on X, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that the Trump administration “did not ‘refuse to comply’” with Friday’s court order.
“The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory,” Leavitt wrote. “The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.”
“Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion,” the press secretary added. “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.”
