The Trump administration transferred hundreds of immigrants to Salvador, even if a federal judge has temporarily made an order with the exception of deportations under a declaration of 18th century war targeting members of Venezuelan gangs, officials announced on Sunday. The flights were in the air at the time of the decision.
US district judge James E. Boasberg made a prescription on Saturday temporarily blocking deportations, but lawyers told him that there were already two planes with immigrants in the air – one headed for El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered that the planes have returned, but they have apparently not been it and he did not include the directive in his written order.
The press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in a declaration on Sunday, responded to speculation on the question of whether the administration flouillated the orders of the court: “The administration did not refuse to comply” to an order of the court. The order, which had no legal basis, was issued after the extraterrestrial TDA terrorist was already rendered from the American territory. “
The acronym refers to the Gang Tren of Aragua, which Trump targeted in his unusual proclamation which was published on Saturday
On Sunday, in a legal file, the Ministry of Justice, which appealed the decision of Boasberg, said that he would not use Trump’s proclamation which he blocked for new deportations if his decision was not canceled.
Trump’s allies were happy on the results.
“OOPSIE – Too late”, President Salvadoran Nayib Bukele, who agreed to host around 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $ 6 million in the prisons of his country, wrote on the social media site X above an article on the decision of Boasberg. This position was recirculated by the director of communications of the White House Steven Cheung.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has negotiated a previous agreement with Bukele to accommodate immigrants, published on the site: “We sent more than 250 members of the Tren of Aragua, at the time of Tren de Aragua, which Salvador has agreed to keep in its very good prisons at a fair price which will also save our dollar taxpayers.”
Immigrants were expelled after Trump’s Declaration of the Extraterrestrial Enemies Act of 1798, which was only used three times in American history.
President Donald Trump quickly follows his promise to repress illegal immigration with raids and expulsion. Trump is now pushing for a massive increase in border security expenditure and immigration reform.
The law, invoked during the War of 1812 and the World Wars I and II, obliges a president to declare that the United States was at war, giving it extraordinary powers to hold or withdraw foreigners who otherwise have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was used for the last time to justify the detention of Japanese-American civilians during the Second World War.
The government of Venezuela in a statement rejected on Sunday rejected the use of the declaration of Trump’s law, characterizing it as evocative “the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to horror of the Nazi concentration camps”.
Tren de Aragua is from a sadly famous prison in the central state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the overwhelming majority of which sought better living conditions after the economy of their nation ended in the last decade. Trump seized the gang during his campaign to paint misleading photos of communities which, according to him, were “taken up” by what was in fact a handful of counterfeits.
The Trump administration has not identified expelled immigrants, provided that they are in fact members of Tren of Aragua or that they have committed crimes in the United States. He also sent two high-level members of the Salvadoral Gang MS-13 to Salvador who had been arrested in the United States.
The deportees were taken to the notorious installation of Cecot, the centerpiece of Bukele’s thrust to pacify its exhausted country once by police measures and basic limits of fundamental rights.
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The Trump administration said that the president had in fact signed the proclamation arguing that Tren of Aragua invades the United States on Friday evening, but only announced it on Saturday afternoon. Immigration lawyers said on Friday evening, they noticed that the Venezuelans who could otherwise be expelled under the Immigration Act were moved to Texas for expulsion flights. They started to bring prosecution to stop transfers.
The dispute that led to the breakdown in deportations was placed on behalf of five Venezuelans detained in Texas who, according to lawyers, were concerned about the fact that they are falsely accused of being members of the gang. Once the act was invoked, they warned, Trump could simply declare anyone a member of Tren from Aragua and withdraw them from the country.
Boasberg prohibited the expulsions of these Venezuelans on Saturday morning when the prosecution was deposited, but only extended it to all those in police custody who could be targeted by law after its afternoon hearing. He noted that the law had never been used before outside a war declared by the Congress and that the complainants could say that Trump has exceeded his legal authority to invoke it.
The deportation bar represents up to 14 days and immigrants will remain in police custody during this period. Boasberg planned an audience on Friday to hear additional arguments in the case.
He said he had to act because immigrants whose deportations could in fact violate the American Constitution deserved a chance to make their pleads heard in court.
“Once they are outside the country,” said Boasberg, “I couldn’t do little.”
