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.

Senior Airman Devlin Bishop/Dept. of Defense via AP
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent watches as undocumented immigrants are loaded onto a C-17 at Tucson International Airport. Senior Airman Devlin Bishop/Dept. of Defense via AP

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.

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