US deportations raise 'serious concerns': UN rights chief

The UN rights main voiced alarm connected Tuesday astatine the ample numbers of non-nationals being deported from the United States, successful peculiar the hundreds sent to a mega-prison successful El Salvador."This concern raises superior concerns regarding a wide array of rights that are cardinal to some US and planetary law," said Volker Turk, the United Nations precocious commissioner for quality rights.His bureau pointed successful a connection to US information showing that betwixt January 20 and 142,000 individuals had been deported from the US.It voiced peculiar interest astatine the concern aft US President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act successful March to nonstop alleged members of the Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua to a monolithic prison, CECOT, successful El Salvador.The US Supreme Court and respective little courts person since temporarily halted deportations utilizing the obscure law, citing the deficiency of due process.And yet, "the destiny and whereabouts of astatine slightest 245 Venezuelans and immoderate 30 Salvadorans removed to El Salvador stay unclear", the UN rights bureau said.The rights bureau said it had received accusation from household members and lawyers regarding much than 100 Venezuelans believed to beryllium held successful CECOT.

"These reports bespeak that galore of the detainees were not informed of the US government's volition to deport them to beryllium held successful a 3rd country, that galore did not person entree to a lawyer and that they were efficaciously incapable to situation the lawfulness of their removal earlier being flown retired of the US," the connection said.It highlighted that to date, nary authoritative lists of the detainees had been published by US oregon Salvadoran authorities, and their ineligible presumption successful El Salvador remains unclear. "Families we person spoken to person expressed a consciousness of implicit powerlessness successful the look of what has happened and their symptom astatine seeing their relatives labelled and handled arsenic convulsive criminals, adjacent terrorists, without immoderate tribunal judgement arsenic to validity of what is claimed against them," Turk sa...