The Long Island consulate for El Salvador has moved from Brentwood to Plainview.
The consulate posted on its website that the change to the new location at 111 Express St. took effect on March 31.
“This change has been implemented to provide the diaspora with better service and greater facilities for consular procedures,” the consulate said on its website.
A representative from the virtual consulate for El Salvador said that the location switch was planned and had nothing to do with El Salvador making an agreement with the Trump Administration to house migrants deported by the United States.
The agreement to permit the Trump administration to ship migrants accused of having gang ties to an infamous maximum security prison in El Salvador without a court hearing has drawn national attention.
Trump Administration officials recently called a 238-man group deported to a prison in El Salvador “terrorists,” but an investigation by 60 Minutes found that a majority of the people deported had no known criminal record.
A United States District Court ordered the return of one man the Trump administration admits was wrongly deported.
The solicitor general, in a case being argued before the Supreme Court, said when the government has mistakenly deported someone to El Salvador and had him imprisoned there, the federal government is powerless to get him back.
The Supreme Court allowed the administration to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which had not been invoked since World War II, to legally expel those allegedly involved in gangs. The Supreme Court said that all detainees must receive due process.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, was drawn into the legal and political arguments when Trump administration officials said it was up to him to release wrongly deported detainees.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Bukele “a great friend of the United States.”
The Plainview consulate is one of 16 locations El Salvador has within the United States, according to the U.S. Department of State.
Business hours at the Plainview location are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
