Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members were deported by the White House to a Supermax prison in El Salvador, even when an American judge blocked the removal.
US district judge James E Boasberg issued an order on Saturday that temporarily blocked the Trump administration portations, but advocates told him that there were already two aircraft with immigrants in the air -one is on his way to El Salvador, the other for Honduras.
Mr. Boasberg orally ordered the aircraft to be turned around, but the Richtien was not included in its written order.
Salvadoran police officers escorted suspected members of the Venezuelan gang train of Aragua. Presidency Press Secretary
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Sunday: ‘The administration did not’ refuse to come to ” to a court order.
“The order, which had no legitimate base, was issued after the terrorist TDA (Tren de Aragua Gang) strangers had already been removed from the US area.”
In a court that filed on Sunday, the Justice Department, which has the decision of Mr. Boasberg appealed, said it would not use the Trump proclamation he blocked for further deportations if his decision was not overturned.
President Donald Trump have a question about whether his administration violated a court order while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday night.
But he added, ‘I can tell you that. It was bad people. ‘
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On a question about the appeal to presidential powers used in war times, Mr. Trump said, “It’s a time of war.”
He also described the influx of criminal migrants as “an invasion”.
“Oops … too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $ 6 million in his country’s prisons, placed on X above an article on the decision of Mr. Boasberg.
The immigrants were deported after Mr. Trump’s Declaration of the Strange Enemies Act of 1798, which was used only three times in American history – during the war of 1812 and the first and second world wars.
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Tren de Aragua originated in a notorious lawless prison in the central state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezolese, the vast majority of which sought better living conditions over the past decade after their country’s economy was undone.
The Trump administration did not identify the deported immigrants, provided that they were members of Tren de Aragua, or that they had committed any crimes in the US.
It also sent two top members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang to El Salvador arrested in the US.
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Video released by the government of El Salvador showed that the chopped men – shaving their heads – were transported to prison in a large convoy buses guarded by police and military vehicles and at least one helicopter.
The immigrants were taken to the infamous Cecot facility.
The deportations bar stands for up to 14 days and the immigrants will remain in federal detention during that time.
Mr Basberg scheduled a hearing on Friday to hear additional arguments in the case.
