#cecot

#cecot

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the United States of people it deported to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, ruling that the government violated their due process rights and must now begin to remedy the consequences of those removals. The order, issued by D.C. U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, arises from a class action brought by Venezuelan migrants who were deported in March 2025 under a presidential proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.

The report by 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, which was supposed to air on the show's episode this past Sunday evening, covered the stories of migrants deported by the Trump administration to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT, a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador with a documented history of human rights abuses. The CECOT segment did air on Canadian networks and has been spreading rapidly online, despite CBS' efforts to get platforms to take down the clip.

The 252 Venezuelans are among the few people who have been able to tell their story, although when they arrived at Cecot they were told they would never leave.