El Salvador Put Trump Deportees Behind Bars. Now Their Families Are Suing.

nytimes.comPublished: 5/9/2025

Summary

Families of individuals deported from the U.S. to El Salvador face severe barriers to accessing basic necessities due to their pending asylum applications, prompting lawsuits against the Salvadoran government for holding them in strict detention conditions at CECOT under a Trump administration deal. The coalition of lawyers representing these families claims the government violated due process and human rights standards by keeping them in solitary confinement without updates or legal representation since March.