Trump sends Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seeker to El Salvador’s version of Guantánamo

The US has sent a Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seeker to El Salvador’s version of the infamous Guantánamo Bay.

A legal battle is going on between Donald Trump’s administration and a federal judge over the president’s attempt to expel more than 130 immigrants from the US to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a “mega-prison” in El Salvador, claiming they were gang members.

Trump is using an 18th-century declaration, the Alien Enemies Act – last used during WWII – as a basis for his policy, but judge James Boasberg has temporarily blocked the move and expressed reservations that the deported migrants had no legal remedy to contest whether they were gang members or not.

“The policy ramifications of this are incredibly troublesome and problematic and concerning,” the judge

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