03/16/2025

Trump Administration Deports Hundreds of Immigrants

This illegal action occurred in spite of a judge's ruling against it

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order  barring the deportations under an 18^th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were allegedly in the air at the time of the ruling.

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air — one headed for El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.

In a court filing Sunday, the Department of Justice, which has appealed Boasberg's decision, said the immigrants "had already been removed from U.S. territory" when the written order was issued at 7:26 pm.

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