Federal Judge Orders Planeloads of Deported Venezuelan Gang Members To Return to America
It remains unclear Sunday whether the Trump administration complied with the judge’s ruling, with the president of El Salvador — the planes’ intended destination — and Secretary Rubio both stating that the deportation operations had already concluded.
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he needed to issue his order immediately because the government already was flying migrants it claimed were newly deportable under President Trump’s proclamation to be incarcerated in El Salvador and Honduras. El Salvador already agreed this week to take up to 300 migrants designated as gang members.
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