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The Trump administration says that many Venezuelans who have been deported to El Salvador's prison

Donald Trump's government admits that “many” of the dozens of Venezuelan men who were deported to El Salvador's notorious Mega prison have no criminal register.

A lack of criminal records “, however, does not show that they represent a limited threat”, according to a curved declaration of an official of the immigration and customs officials who was presented in court files.

A “lack of specific information about every person actually underlines the risk they represent,” says Ice Official Robert Cerna.

“It shows that they are terrorists in which we are missing a complete profile,” he wrote.

The extraordinary declaration was included in the Trump government's court files, which asked a judge to reverse his order, which temporarily blocks the deportations as part of the law on extraterrestrial enemies.

District judge James Boasberg has instructed the government's lawyers to respond to several questions – about the time of flights when the aircraft left us and stood on them – to determine whether the civil servants deliberately defies his court decision.

The Trump administration has appealed against the injunction, and the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice have argued that “there is no justification to order additional information and that this would be inappropriately.”

These answers would “disclose sensitive information about national security and external relationships,” said a judicial report from lawyers from the Ministry of Justice.

In this photo, which was made available by El Salvador's press release, prison attendants from the United States, who are supposedly Venezuelan gang members, change to Terrorism limit in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025 (El Salvador's Presidential Press Office via AP)

Three flights, which allegedly contained members of the Tren de Agua gang in Venezuela, left the United States on Friday evening for El Salvador despite the oral – and written commands of the judge, which expressly blocked them from the start.

A timeline is crucial to determine whether the administration is open to the order, and cited Trump's unprecedented claim to executive authority – which fear critics, a threshold that beats critical checks and violent.

“The effects of the position of the government are amazing,” wrote the lawyers for deported Venezuelan immigrants to an appellate court on Tuesday.

“If the President can call a group as an enemy alien within the framework of the law and this term cannot be checked, there is no limitation for who can be sent to a Salvadoran prison or how long they will stay there,” they added. “The Salvadoran President currently says that these men will be there for at least a year and that this detention is” renewable “.”

In the meantime, Trump asked for the judge to raise the office and, on Tuesday, withdrawn a rare complaint from the Supreme judge of the Supreme Court, John Roberts.

“For more than two centuries, it has been found that there is no reasonable response to disagreements in relation to a judicial decision,” he said in a statement to reporters. “For this purpose, there is the normal appeal review process.”

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers also criticized the government's arguments and condemned the president's attacks.

“Accusations without evidence, the rejection of access to the legal advisor and the obvious despite court orders not to deport the accused without hearing are a dangerous deviation from these principles,” said the President of the Association, Christopher A. Wellborn, in a statement.