A Venezuelan migrant who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison has filed an administrative claim over what he says was his wrongful removal from the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.

The exuberant homecoming was in stark contrast to the welcome he received in March at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where he says he and over 200 other Venezuelan nationals, accused by the Trump administration of being members of the gang Tren de Aragua, were violently ushered into the facility.

Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.

The return of 10 U.S. citizens in exchange for 250 deportees who were sent to El Salvador in March underscored the blatantly illegal way the Oval Office upended these immigrants' lives.

With the release and transfer to Venezuela of 252 Venezuelans from the CECOT in El Salvador, where they were tortured and abused after their forced disappearance from the United States, Human Rights First condemns the U.

Some ex-CECOT detainees from Venezuela could return to US, official says The Trump administration says it will facilitate the return of former detainees of an El Salvador prison to the U.S. from Venezuela, if required by a court.