The United States presses on with its deportation exercise as El Salvador becomes the next destination for hundreds of immigrants, despite an order of a federal judge to temporarily bar the deportations.
Reports indicate that the judge issued the order under an 18th-century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members. Officials confirmed however confirmed that deportation planes were already in the air before the verbal declaration of the law.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday temporarily 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 were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement Sunday, responded to speculation about whether the administration was flouting court orders: “The administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist Tren de Aragua gang aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.”
The US government is committed to making America Great Again with a number of executive orders including the deportation of illegal immigrants in the United States as issued by President Donald Trump.
