The Trump administration sports hundreds of immigrants against the orders of Judge – GV Wire

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador, even when a federal judge issued an order temporarily that prohibits deportations under a statement of the 18th century aimed at members of Venezuelan gangs, authorities said on Sunday. The flights were in the air at the time of the failure.

The American district judge James E. Boasberg issued an order on Saturday that temporarily blocked deportations, but lawyers told him that there were already two airplanes with air immigrants, one aimed at El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered that the airplanes were changed, but apparently they were not and did not include the directive in its written order.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement on Sunday, responded to speculation about whether the administration was breaking the judicial orders: “The administration did not” refuse to comply “with a court order. The order, which did not have a legal basis, was issued after the terrorist TDA Aliens had already been withdrawn from the US territory.”

The acronym refers to the Trena de Aragua gang, which Trump attacked in his unusual proclamation that was launched on Saturday

In a judicial presentation on Sunday, the Department of Justice, which appealed the decision of Boasberg, said it would not use Trump’s proclamation that he blocked for additional deportations if his decision is not revoked.

Trump reduced the violation of the judicial order question

Trump avoided a question about whether his administration violated a court order while talking to journalists aboard Air Force One on Sunday night.

“I don’t know. You have to talk to lawyers about that,” he said, although he defended deportations. “I can tell you this. These were bad people.”

When asked about invoking the presidential powers used in war times, Trump said: “This is a moment of war”, which describes the influx of criminal migrants as “an invasion.”

Trump’s allies were cheerful for the results.

“Oopsie … too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wrote, who agreed to house about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $ 6 million in the prisons of his country, at the social media site X on an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That publication was recirculated by the Director of Communications of the White House, Steven Cheung.

The Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who negotiated a previous agreement with Bukele to house immigrants, published on the site: “We send more than 250 alien enemy members of the train of Aragua that El Salvador has agreed to keep in its very good prisons at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.”

Steve Vladeck, a professor at the Law Center of the University of Georgetown, said that Boasberg’s verbal directive to change the planes was not technically part of his final order, but that the Trump administration clearly violated the “spirit” of her.

“This simply encourages future courts to be hyper specific in their orders and do not give the government any margin of maneuver,” Vlack said.

Activation of alien enemies Law of 1798

Immigrants were deported after the Trump declaration of the Alien Enemies Law of 1798, which has been used only three times in the history of the United States.

The law, invoked during the War of 1812 and the World Wars I and II, requires that a president declare that the United States is at war, giving extraordinary powers to stop or eliminate foreigners who would otherwise have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to justify the arrest of Japanese-American civilians during World War II.

The Venezuelan government in a statement on Sunday rejected the use of the declaration of Trump’s law, characterizing it as an evocator of “the darkest episodes of human history, from slavery to the horror of Nazis concentration camps.”

Aragua Train originated in an infamous prison without law in the central state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the overwhelming majority of which they were looking for better living conditions after the economy of their nation was undone during the last decade. Trump seized the gang during his campaign to paint misleading images of the communities that he said they were “assumed” so they were actually a handful of offenders of the law.

Trump’s administration has not identified deported immigrants

The Trump administration has not identified deported immigrants, provided any evidence that, in fact, they are members of a Aragua train or who committed any crime in the United States. He also sent two main members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang to El Salvador who had been arrested in the United States.

The video published by the Government of El Salvador on Sunday showed the men who left airport to an airport that aligned by officers with riot team. The men, who had their hands and chained ankles, fought to walk while the officers pushed their heads down to lean towards the waist.

The video also showed the men transported to prison in a great convoy of buses guarded by police and military vehicles and at least a helicopter. Men were kneeling on the ground when their heads shaved before becoming the totally white uniform of the prison (shorts to the knee, t -shirts, socks and rubber clogs) and placed in cells.

Immigrants were taken to the notorious CECOT installation, the centerpiece of Bukele’s impulse to pacify their country that once was violence through the harsh police measures and the limits of basic rights

The Trump administration said the president signed the proclamation that had a Aragua Train was invading the United States on Friday night, but did not announce it until Saturday afternoon. Immigration lawyers said that, on Friday night, they noticed Venezuelans that otherwise they could not be deported under the immigration law transferred to Texas for deportation flights. They began to file demands to stop transfers.

“Basically, any Venezuelan citizen in the United States can be eliminated under the pretext of belonging to Train de Aragua, without any possibility of defense,” said Adam Isacson, from the Washington office for Latin America, a human rights group, in X.

Litigation presented on behalf of five Venezuelans held in Texas

The litigation that led to the control of deportations was presented on behalf of five Venezuelans held in Texas, which the lawyers said they were worried that they would be falsely accused of being members of the gang. Once the act was invoked, they warned, Trump could simply declare anyone who a member of Aragua eliminates them from the country.

Boasberg prohibited the deportations of those Venezuelans on Saturday morning when the lawsuit was filed, but only extended it to all people in federal custody that could be attacked by law after their audience in the afternoon. He pointed out that the law had never been used before a war declared with Congress and that the plaintiffs can successfully argue that Trump exceeded his legal authority by invoking it.

The deportation bar represents up to 14 days and immigrants will remain in federal custody during that time. Boasberg has scheduled a audience on Friday to listen to additional arguments in the case.

He said he had to act because immigrants whose deportations can really violate the constitution of the United States deserved the opportunity for their pleas to be heard in court.

“Once they are out of the country,” said Boasberg, “there is little to do.”