Move is latest in controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in US

The US has sent 17 more people accused of being gang members to El Salvador without providing their names or any other identifying information, the latest in the Trump administration’s controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in the US.

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced the overnight military transfer on Monday, asserting that the group included “murderers and rapists” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs, which the Trump administration has recently labeled foreign terrorists.