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The U.S. sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The Trump administration says they're all gang members, but 60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of them.
Philip Holsinger photographed Venezuelan deportees from the U.S., most with no apparent criminal record, as they became inmates in a notorious prison in El Salvador. Photograph by Philip Holsinger.
Venezuelan migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and deportation protections next week, on April 7.
The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador, while activists say officials have sent them to a prison rife with human rights abuses.
The woman insists her partner has no criminal record and has never been a member of any gang.
The Trump administration continues to insist it didn't defy a federal judge's order when it failed to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
The Trump administration insists that over 200 Venezuelan men deported to a notorious El Salvador prison are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, but there are reports from family members of the deportees that some are not. Lilia Luciano talked to a woman who says her partner was deported to the prison despite having no criminal record.
The Justice Dept. invoked a state secrets privilege, refusing to give judge any more information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
President Trump said the U.S. will place a 25% tariff on imports from all countries that buy oil or gas from Venezuela. According to Rystad Energy, a research and consulting firm, China and the U.S. have been the top buyers of Venezuelan oil in recent months. CBS News contributor Javier David has more on what this means.
The Trump administration is refusing to provide a federal judge with more information on last week's deportation flights. Tuesday is the deadline for the Department of Justice to explain why it failed to follow the judge's orders. CBS News' Jake Rosen and Lilia Luciano have the latest.
A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday on the Trump administration's use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport more than 2,000 Venezeluans to El Salvador. A lower court judge is temporarily blocking the administration from invoking the law. CBS News Department of Justice reporter Jake Rosen has more.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration invoked a rarely-used, 18th-century law to deport hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, claiming they were gang members. An appeals court hearing is underway in Washington Monday over the use of that act. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the latest.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had suspended flights on March 8, after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the withdrawal of Chevron's license to export Venezuelan oil.
President Trump again took to social media to attack a federal judge who ruled against his administration over the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison. Nicole Sganga has the latest on the ongoing immigration fight.
A total of 532,000 migrants from from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela entered the U.S. under the CHNV policy.
President Donald Trump is ramping up his attacks against the federal judge at the center of a deportation standoff. In a contentious hearing Friday, Judge James Boasberg accused the Trump administration of disrespecting the court and ignoring orders after they deported alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador last week under a wartime law from the 1700s. Some of those deported had no criminal records, CBS News reported.
The court asked the government if "someone is not a member of Tren de Aragua or not a Venezuelan citizen or a U.S. citizen," how do they challenge their removal?
The Trump administration plans to revoke the legal status of potentially more than half-a-million immigrants currently living in the U.S. Camilo Montoya-Galvez has analysis.
The Trump administration appeared in court again on Friday, defending its decision to deport hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador's mega-prison. On Saturday, President Trump cited a centuries-old law called the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants with alleged ties to the gang Tren de Aragua. A judge temporarily paused the flights and verbally told the administration to turn the planes around, which didn't happen. CBS News Department of Justice reporter Jake Rosen breaks it all down and has the latest updates.
President Trump was asked how he could guarantee that everyone deported to El Salvador is a dangerous criminal on Friday. He said the migrants went through a "very strong vetting process." Meanwhile, the Trump administration plans to revoke the legal status for hundreds of thousands of Latin American and Haitian migrants in April. CBS News Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.
The judge who temporarily blocked the Trump administration's deportation flights to El Salvador held a contentious hearing Friday, grilling Justice Department lawyers on what they knew about the flight and why they seemingly ignored his order to turn them around. Plus, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Air Force's newest aircraft. CBS News' Jake Rosen and Charlie D'Agata have the latest.
Venezuela's interior minister, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, called the U.S. deportation flights to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison the "establishment of a concentration camp." This comes as more details emerge about those deported by the Trump administration. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
CBS News obtained an internal government list of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants deported and sent to a notorious El Salvador prison. A woman's husband, who was an asylum seeker, was on the list. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has the story.
CBS News has obtained the names of the Venezuelan men deported in flights to El Salvador last weekend. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.
CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.
The deployment dramatically increases the number of U.S. service members and ships dedicated to countering narcotics traffickers.
The government shutdown hit Day 24 with no deal in sight as the Senate stands adjourned for the weekend. Follow live updates here.
In a "CBS Sunday Morning" interview to air Oct. 26, the California governor dismisses the president's proposal to send National Guard troops to San Francisco, and says that he would sue to block any such attempt.
The U.S. sanctioned the Colombian president, an escalation of the feud between President Trump and the South American leader.
New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by the Justice Department in October on bank fraud charges.
German businessman Alexander Böcker was reading the news with his wife when she told him about a robbery at the Louvre in Paris. They soon saw an opportunity.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro gives his side of the story as he engages Trump in a war of words over mounting U.S. boat strikes.
Zhi Dong Zhang, known as "Brother Wang," escaped house arrest in Mexico in July and has now been transferred into U.S. custody, officials said.
Isabelle Tate previously shared she suffered from a progressive neuromuscular disease and her family requested memorial donations be sent to the the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association.