Josefina Romero weeps for her son who is being held
in a high security prison in El Salvador. He's
one of the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants deported from the
US for their alleged ties to the notorious Trendaragua gang
, but Romero says her son is not a criminal
and demanded that El Salvador's president send him home.
Please bring him back to Venezuela. He's doing nothing
there with other Venezuelans. Send him back. If
Bukele wants justice, he can seek justice with criminals
there. The fact that they have tattoos doesn't mean
they belong to the. Nowadays everyone has tattoos.
Romero and other families in Carabobo, Venezuela made the
tattoo connection after reading on social media that US authorities
had linked having tattoos to the gang. This father
says if he has to, he will go to
El Salvador himself to search for his son and bring
him back on foot. Last weekend, US President
Donald Trump invoked an 18th century wartime law to deport
alleged members of Trendagua, which the White House has
declared a terrorist group and alien enemy. The migrants
are being held in El Salvador under an agreement with
Bukeli's government. Venezuela's Interior Ministry said on Friday that
none of the Venezuelans deported by the US to El
Salvador is a member of Trenda. Saying quote I
believe with absolute responsibility that not a single one appears
on the organizational chart of the criminal gang. Later
on Friday, the judge who temporarily blocked the Trump
administration from deporting the Venezuelans under the obscure law said
government lawyers had been intemperate and disrespectful. That's according
to court filings at the outset of a hearing on
Friday over whether to maintain the ban. Judge James
Bosburg is also considering whether officials violated his order on
March 15 by failing to return two planes carrying the
deportees that landed in El Salvador. He ordered Justice
Department officials to provide an explanation by Tuesday. Trump
has said he would not defy any court orders and
told reporters on Friday that his administration has the authority
to get bad people out of our country. These
are hard, tough criminals. And we have to
get them out, and you can't stop that with
a judge sitting behind a bench that has no idea
. The escalating dispute between the judge and the Trump
administration has raised concerns among some legal experts about a
potentially looming constitutional crisis if the administration defies judicial decisions --> .