Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants, even if a judge recommends that their deletions are stopped

By Nicholas Riccardi

The Trump government has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador, even if a federal court sequence Temporarily equipped the deportations among a 18th -century war declaration aimed at Venezuelan gang members, officials said on Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.

Judge James E. Boasberg of the American district issued an order on Saturday in which the deportations were blocked, but lawyers told him that there were already two aircraft with immigrants in the air – one on the way to El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg ordered verbally that the planes were reversed, but apparently they were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.

“Oopsie … too late,” wrote Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, an ally of Trump who agreed to house around 300 immigrants for a year for an amount of $ 6 million in the prisons of his country, on the social media site X above an article about an article about Boasberg’s statement. That message was recirculated by communication director of the White House Steven Cheung.

State Secretary Marco Rubio, who negotiated an earlier deal with Bukele to accommodate immigrants, posted on the site: “We have sent more than 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua that El Salvador has agreed to their very good prisons that will also save our taxpayer dollars.”

Steve Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said that the verbal guideline of Boasberg to reverse the aircraft was not technically part of his final order, but that the Trump government clearly violated the “spirit”.

“This simulates the future courts to be hyper -specific in their orders and not to give the government a leeway,” said Vladeck.

The immigrants were deported after Trump’s statement of the Outward enemies from 1798, which was used alone three times In American history.

The law, invoked during the first world wars I and II and the war of 1812, requires a president to declare that the United States are at war, giving him extraordinary powers to retain or remove foreigners who would otherwise have protection under immigration or penal laws. It was last used to justify the detention of Japanese-American citizens during the Second World War.

The ACLU, which brought the lawsuit that led to the temporary limiting command of Boasberg on deportations, said that the government asked if the deletions to El Salvador were contrary to the court.

“This morning we asked the government to ensure that her command was not violated and waiting to hear, and tries to do our own research,” said the main lawyer of ACLU, Lee Getten, Sunday in a statement.