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Thank you. Network. Thanks for listening to In Black America. The Trump administration's efforts to deport migrants, it says, are gang members, have hit

several legal roadblocks in recent days. Federal judges in the Supreme Court have blocked the government from

deporting more migrants under a seldom used 18th century wartime law. As part of our weekly series

on the state of our democracy, if you can keep it, we're looking at the administration's deportation

program and the response of the courts. The Trump administration is deporting migrants without due process and using El Salvador to

quickly put them out of reach, even when courts rule the deportations were illegal or the

administration acknowledges, as it did in court with Kilmire Obrigo-Garcia, that they deported

someone by mistake.

The administration's relationship with El Salvador is a big part of what's making the deportation

strategy possible.

Salvador and President Naïbe Buceli has accepted hundreds of people deported from the U.S.,

including many nationals of third countries, like Venezuela.

Why is El Salvador working with the Trump

administration to deport people from the U.S., including a defiance of federal court orders,

and what should we learn from Buckele-style of rule in his close relationship with the administration?

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