Trump administration deports hundreds as judge orders their removals be stopped with planes already in the air

On Sunday, officials said that the Trump administration moved hundreds of migrants to El Salvador even when a federal judge issued a temporary deportation under a wartime declaration in the eighteenth century and targeted members of Venezuelan gangs. The flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.

The American boycott judge issued James E. Boasberg verbally commanded that the planes have turned, but it was clear that they were not not included in his written request.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Justice, which appealed the Busburg decision, said that the immigrants “had already been removed from American territory” when the written order was issued at 7:26 pm.

Trump’s allies were boiling on the results.

The President of Salvadori Naib Boucley, who agreed to accommodate about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $ 6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article on the rule of Bawazburg. This post was recycled by White House Communications Director Stephen Cheung.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who negotiated a previous deal with an agent of home immigrants, published on the site: “We have sent more than 250 foreign enemy members in Treen de Aragua, who Al Salvador agreed to keep in their good prisons at a fair price that would also save taxpayers dollars.”

Steve Vladik, a professor at the George Town Center, said that the verbal guidance of Passburg for his role around aircraft was not a technical part of his final order, but the Trump administration clearly violated the “spirit” of Ha.

“This stimulates future courts to be very identified in its orders and not to give the government any room to maneuver,” said Vladic.

The migrants were deported after Trump announced the law of foreign enemies for 1798, which was used only three times in the history of the United States.

The law, which was summoned during the 1812 war and the first and second global wars, requires the United States that the United States is in a war, which gives it unusual powers to detention or remove foreigners who will obtain protection under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to justify the detention of Japanese American civilians during World War II.

On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice referred to a previous statement issued by Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi, who explodes a decision of Boasberg and did not immediately answer questions about whether the administration ignored the court’s order.

In a statement on Sunday, the Venezuela government refused to use the Trump declaration of the law, as it described it as an exciting “the darkest in the history of mankind, from slavery to the horror of Nazi detention camps.”

Trine de Aragoa grew up in the imprisonment of Shairo in the central state of Aragoa and accompanied the migration of millions of Venezuelans, and the vast majority of them were looking for better living conditions after their nation’s economy declined during the past decade. Trump seized the gang during his campaign to paint misleading pictures of the societies that he claimed “captured” the actually a handful of law stations.

The Trump administration has not identified the migrants who were deported, or provided any evidence that they were actually members of Tren De Aragua or they committed any crimes in the United States. The major members of the Salvadran MS-13 gang were sent to El Salvador who were arrested in the United States.

A video released by the El Salvador government on Sunday showed men coming out of the planes on the airport runway on which officers lined up in riot equipment. The men, who were handing their hands and ankles, struggled to walk while the officers pushed their heads down to make them curve at the waist.

The video also showed the men who are transferred to prison in a large convoy of buses guarded by the police, military cars and at least one helicopter. The men were shown to kneel on the ground where their heads were shaved before they turned into a fully white prison costume-short knee pants, shirt, socks, rubber stability-and placed in cells.

The migrants were transferred to the notorious Cecot facility, the Bukele batch axis to calm his country, which was suffering from violence through difficult police measures and its limits on basic rights

The Trump administration said that the president has actually signed a declaration competing for Trin de Aragoa that was invading the United States on Friday night, but he did not announce this until Saturday afternoon. Immigration lawyers said, late on Friday, they noticed the Venezuelan who could not be deported under the immigration law transferred to Texas for deportation. They started filing lawsuits to stop the transfers.

“Basically, any Venezuelan citizen in the United States may be removed under the pretext of belonging to Trin de Aragoa, with no defense opportunity,” Adam Isaxon warned of the Washington office of Latin America, the human rights group, on X.

The lawsuits that led to the comment on the deportations were submitted on behalf of five Venezuelans held in Texas, whom lawyers said worried that they will be accused of lies that they are members of the gang. Once the law was called, they warned that Trump could simply announce anyone member of Train de Aragua and remove him from the country.

Boasberg prevented the deportation of these Venezuelans on Saturday morning when the lawsuit was filed, but it was only able to all people in the federal reservation who could target the law after the afternoon hearing. He pointed out that the law has not been used before outside a declared war of and that the plaintiffs may successfully argue that Trump has exceeded his legal authority to summon it.

The tape stands on the deportation for up to 14 days and immigrants will remain in the federal reservation during that time. Boasberg set a hearing on Friday to hear additional arguments in the case.

He said he had to behave because the immigrants who might violate their deportation in reality the United States constitution deserve an opportunity to hear them in court.

“Once they get out of the country, there is little that I can do,” Pasperj said.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-03-16 21:51:00