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Sarah Shamim

Trump deports 238 ‘gang members’ to El Salvador: What’s the controversy?

Salvadoran police officers cut the hair of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua deported by the US [Handout/Press Secretary of the Presidency via Reuters]

President Donald Trump’s administration has deported alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua from the United States to El Salvador despite a court order prohibiting their expulsion from the country.

Sunday’s move is the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration to expel foreign nationals – some accused of being in the US without documentation, others targeted over campus protests.

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