Trump caught in a damaging lie and his legal defense is destroyed as the truth is accidentally exposed

The Donald Trump administration’s mass deportation program to El Salvador’s maximum security prison, CECOT, has faced a significant legal challenge after new evidence emerged from a United Nations document. U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher has demanded answers from the administration about who has been telling the truth about control over the deportees.

According to MSNBC, the controversy started when Trump used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport hundreds of people who were claimed to be members of a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua. These deportations happened without proper legal procedures, and when a judge ordered the administration to stop the removals, they ignored the order, reflecting Trump’s ICE expansion of deportation authority.

In a stunning revelation to a U.N. inquiry, El Salvador’s government confirmed that the deported migrants remain under U.S. control. They stated that their role was simply to provide prison space through a cooperation agreement, and that “jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities.”

New evidence shows the U.S. paid millions for housing deportees

Reports indicate that the U.S. has been paying El Salvador several million dollars to hold these criminal detainees for a year in CECOT’s Module 8. This arrangement contradicts the administration’s earlier claims that they had no power over the deportees once they were in El Salvador.

The Department of Justice had repeatedly claimed they couldn’t help return wrongly deported individuals, saying it was up to El Salvador to make such decisions, adding to Trump’s ongoing legal defense challenges. Several officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and State Department official Michael Kozak, insisted that El Salvador had full control over the detainees.

Judge Gallagher has now given the administration until next week to explain why the State Department would need “diplomatic discussions” with El Salvador about the CECOT detainees if the country has no real control over them. The situation has drawn comparisons to previous controversial detention practices, such as the CIA’s black sites during the George W. Bush administration.

The U.N. document has effectively exposed the truth about who really controls these detainees, challenging the administration’s previous statements in court. Legal experts argue that since these detainees are in America’s “constructive custody,” they should have the right to due process under U.S. law.