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(NewsNation) — District Judge James E. Boasberg — whose order was perchance violated erstwhile the Trump medication carried retired deportation flights to El Salvador nether the Alien Enemies Act — is demanding the Justice Department manus implicit each accusation astir the flights by noon connected Tuesday.
The medication invoked the 18th-century wartime law to transportation retired deportations of much than 250 alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 pack members past weekend, contempt Boasberg's impermanent artifact connected the removals.
White House property secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday that Trump “is utilizing each lever of his enforcement authorization and his law authorization wrong the bounds of the migration laws of our state to guarantee that our streets are safer for law-abiding American citizens.”
In a contentious tribunal proceeding Monday, Boasberg scolded the DOJ for not turning the planes carrying the alleged pack members astir contempt being ordered to bash truthful during a virtual proceeding Saturday.
The DOJ refused to stock overmuch information, citing nationalist information reasons, and said nary planes departed aft the written bid was filed. The justice said his verbal bid should person been capable to crushed the planes.
“I’m conscionable asking however you deliberation my equitable powers bash not connect to a level that has departed the U.S., adjacent if it’s successful planetary airspace,” Boasberg said.
The Trump squad has described the Tren de Aragua pack arsenic an invading unit conducting irregular warfare, but the American Civil Liberties Union — which filed a suit Saturday — has raised concerns that immoderate of those deported mightiness not really beryllium pack members.
"At this point, it seems similar the medication is simply walking into tribunal and telling a national tribunal they can't look astatine the evidence, they can't halt what they're doing," said Lee Gelernt, lawman manager of the American Civil Liberties Union's immigrants' rights project.
"We spot changeless nationalist statements from medication officials criticizing national judges, saying they don't person authority," Gelernt said. "I deliberation we're connected unsafe crushed present successful the United States."
According to a social media station from Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, the state has agreed to clasp 238 Venezuelans successful its “terrorism confinement center.” They are scheduled to enactment for astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth nether an statement betwixt the U.S. and El Salvador worthy $6 million, according to the Associated Press.
The president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, has slammed Trump's actions, saying the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were denied owed process and that the state volition bash everything it tin to person them returned home.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
