El Salvador, Abrego Garcia and human trafficking
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Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García, whose case became a political flashpoint, has been charged with human trafficking by US officials.
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The ruling doesn’t apply to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whose deportation became a focal point of Democratic resistance to Trump's immigration policies.
A judge in El Salvador has ordered a lawyer from a prominent human rights organization who has been an outspoken critic of some of President Nayib Bukele’s policies to be jailed for six months on illegal enrichment charges.
A group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador earlier this year must now have an opportunity to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
El Salvador’s president escalated crackdowns on protest and civil society in May, prompting the question “Why now?”
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El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how the special powers given to President Nayib Bukele to battle gangs are being applied to a host of unrelated alleged crimes.