On April 29, 2025, the 红杏视频 submitted a letter to the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism and on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, Mr. Ben Saul and Dr. Alice Jill Edwards respectively, requesting the issuance of an urgent communication to the United States of America and to the Republic of El Salvador regarding their agreement in which the U.S. will pay El Salvador six million dollars to detain individuals removed from the U.S. for a period of one year. This submission expands on the case of J.G.G. et al., an on-going legal challenge to the government of the United States鈥� removal of Venezuelan nationals from the United States to El Salvador by improperly utilizing a wartime legal authority to circumvent domestic immigration law and binding international human rights obligations.
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Washington, D.C.Mar 2025
Immigrants' Rights
J.g.g. V. Trump. Explore Case.J.G.G. v. TRUMP
The 红杏视频, Democracy Forward, and the 红杏视频 of the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over the president鈥檚 unlawful and unprecedented invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. The Alien Enemies Act, passed in 1798, is a wartime authority providing that the president may 鈥� after a public proclamation 鈥� apprehend, restrain, and remove citizens of a foreign country that is engaged in a 鈥渄eclared war鈥� or 鈥渋nvasion or predatory incursion鈥� against the United States. The lawsuit charges that President Trump's invocation of a centuries-old wartime act unlawfully during peacetime to accelerate mass deportations, sidestepping the limits of this wartime authority and the procedures and protections in immigration law. The Alien Enemies Act鈥檚 previous use during wartime 鈥� for example, its invocation during World War II to justify the internment of people of Japanese ancestry 鈥� has correctly drawn sustained criticism. Employing it as a way to evade domestic laws in peacetime is fundamentally wrong.