âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration- dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting
Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.
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 â 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.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement Sunday, responded to speculation about whether the administration was flouting
court orders: âThe administration did not ârefuse to complyâ with a court
order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist
TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.â
The acronym refers to the Tren de Aragua gang, which Trump targeted in his unusual proclamation that was released Saturday
In a court filing Sunday, the Department of Justice, which has appealed Boasbergâs decision, said it would not use the Trump proclamation he blocked for further deportations if his decision is not overturned.
Trumpâs allies were gleeful over the results.
âOopsieToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who negotiated an earlier deal with Bukele
to house immigrants, posted on the site: âWe sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their
very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.â
Steve Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said
that Boasbergâs verbal directive to turn around the planes was not technically part of his final order but that the Trump administration
clearly violated the âspiritâ of it.
âThis just incentivizes future courts to be hyper specific in their orders and not give the government any wiggle room,â Vladeck said.
The immigrants were deported after Trumpâs declaration of the Alien
Enemies Act of 1798, which has been used only three times in U.S. history.
The law, invoked during the War of 1812 and World Wars I and II, requires
a president to declare the United States is at war, giving him
extraordinary powers to detain or remove foreigners who otherwise would
have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to justify the detention of Japanese-American civilians during World War II.
Venezuelaâs government in a statement Sunday rejected the use of Trumpâs declaration of the law, characterizing it as evocative of âthe darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horror of the Nazi concentration camps.â
Tren de Aragua originated in an infamously lawless prison in the central state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the overwhelming majority of whom were seeking better living conditions after their nationâs economy came undone during the past decade. Trump seized on the gang during his campaign to paint misleading pictures of communities
that he contended were âtaken overâ by what were actually a handful of lawbreakers.
The Trump administration has not identified the immigrants deported,
provided any evidence they are in fact members of Tren de Aragua or that
they committed any crimes in the United States. It also sent two top
members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang to El Salvador who had been arrested
in the United States.
Video released by El Salvadorâs government Sunday showed men exiting airplanes onto an airport tarmac lined by officers in riot gear. The men,
who had their hands and ankles shackled, struggled to walk as officers
pushed their heads down to have them bend down at the waist.
The video also showed the men being transported to prison in a large
convoy of buses guarded by police and military vehicles and at least one helicopter. The men were shown kneeling on the ground as their heads were shaved before they changed into the prisonâs all-white uniform â knee- length shorts, T-shirt, socks and rubber clogs â and placed in cells.
The immigrants were taken to the notorious CECOT facility, the centerpiece
of Bukeleâs push to pacify his once violence-wracked country through tough police measures and limits on basic rights
The Trump administration said the president actually signed the
proclamation contending Tren de Aragua was invading the United States on Friday night but didnât announce it until Saturday afternoon. Immigration lawyers said that, late Friday, they noticed Venezuelans who otherwise couldnât be deported under immigration law being moved to Texas for deportation flights. They began to file lawsuits to halt the transfers.
âBasically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,â Adam Isacson of the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on
X.
The litigation that led to the hold on deportations was filed on behalf of five Venezuelans held in Texas who lawyers said were concerned theyâd be falsely accused of being members of the gang. Once the act is invoked,
they warned, Trump could simply declare anyone a Tren de Aragua member and remove them from the country.
Boasberg barred those Venezuelansâ deportations Saturday morning when the suit was filed, but only broadened it to all people in federal custody who could be targeted by the act after his afternoon hearing. He noted that
the law has never before been used outside of a congressionally declared
war and that plaintiffs may successfully argue Trump exceeded his legal authority in invoking it.
The bar on deportations stands for up to 14 days and the immigrants will remain in federal custody during that time. Boasberg has scheduled a
hearing Friday to hear additional arguments in the case.
He said he had to act because the immigrants whose deportations may
actually violate the U.S. Constitution deserved a chance to have their
pleas heard in court.
âOnce theyâre out of the country,â Boasberg said, âthereâs little I could
do.â
Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs >> prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
How soon before US citizens get sent to the Donaldov Gulag?
Siri Cruise wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs >>> prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Cheung is another one of Trump's rancid mouthpieces.
How soon before US citizens get sent to the Donaldov Gulag?
Is that a private prison or a government prison?
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Siri Cruise wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs >>>> prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Cheung is another one of Trump's rancid mouthpieces.
How soon before US citizens get sent to the Donaldov Gulag?
Is that a private prison or a government prison?
Like all things idjt, intentionally ambiguous to hide from courts.
In <vrcoav$3bk39$1@dont-email.me> goatmolester wrote:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-
dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El
Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the
deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting
Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at >> the time of the ruling.
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 â 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.
Trumpâs allies were gleeful over the results.
âOopsieToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to house >> about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his countryâs >> prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who negotiated an earlier deal with Bukele >> to house immigrants, posted on the site: âWe sent over 250 alien enemy
members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their
very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.â >>
Steve Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said
that Boasbergâs verbal directive to turn around the planes was not
technically part of his final order but that the Trump administration
clearly violated the âspiritâ of it.
âThis just incentivizes future courts to be hyper specific in their orders >> and not give the government any wiggle room,â Vladeck said.
The immigrants were deported after Trumpâs declaration of the Alien
Enemies Act of 1798, which has been used only three times in U.S. history. >>
The law, invoked during the War of 1812 and World Wars I and II, requires
a president to declare the United States is at war, giving him
extraordinary powers to detain or remove foreigners who otherwise would
have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to
justify the detention of Japanese-American civilians during World War II.
Venezuelaâs government in a statement Sunday rejected the use of Trumpâs >> declaration of the law, characterizing it as evocative of âthe darkest
episodes in human history, from slavery to the horror of the Nazi
concentration camps.â
Tren de Aragua originated in an infamously lawless prison in the central
state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the
overwhelming majority of whom were seeking better living conditions after
their nationâs economy came undone during the past decade. Trump seized on >> the gang during his campaign to paint misleading pictures of communities
that he contended were âtaken overâ by what were actually a handful of >> lawbreakers.
The Trump administration has not identified the immigrants deported,
provided any evidence they are in fact members of Tren de Aragua or that
they committed any crimes in the United States. It also sent two top
members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang to El Salvador who had been arrested
in the United States.
Video released by El Salvadorâs government Sunday showed men exiting
airplanes onto an airport tarmac lined by officers in riot gear. The men,
who had their hands and ankles shackled, struggled to walk as officers
pushed their heads down to have them bend down at the waist.
The video also showed the men being transported to prison in a large
convoy of buses guarded by police and military vehicles and at least one
helicopter. The men were shown kneeling on the ground as their heads were
shaved before they changed into the prisonâs all-white uniform â knee- >> length shorts, T-shirt, socks and rubber clogs â and placed in cells.
The immigrants were taken to the notorious CECOT facility, the centerpiece >> of Bukeleâs push to pacify his once violence-wracked country through tough >> police measures and limits on basic rights
The Trump administration said the president actually signed the
proclamation contending Tren de Aragua was invading the United States on
Friday night but didnât announce it until Saturday afternoon. Immigration >> lawyers said that, late Friday, they noticed Venezuelans who otherwise
couldnât be deported under immigration law being moved to Texas for
deportation flights. They began to file lawsuits to halt the transfers.
âBasically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of >> belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,â Adam Isacson of >> the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on
X.
The litigation that led to the hold on deportations was filed on behalf of >> five Venezuelans held in Texas who lawyers said were concerned theyâd be >> falsely accused of being members of the gang. Once the act is invoked,
they warned, Trump could simply declare anyone a Tren de Aragua member and >> remove them from the country.
Boasberg barred those Venezuelansâ deportations Saturday morning when the >> suit was filed, but only broadened it to all people in federal custody who >> could be targeted by the act after his afternoon hearing. He noted that
the law has never before been used outside of a congressionally declared
war and that plaintiffs may successfully argue Trump exceeded his legal
authority in invoking it.
The bar on deportations stands for up to 14 days and the immigrants will
remain in federal custody during that time. Boasberg has scheduled a
hearing Friday to hear additional arguments in the case.
He said he had to act because the immigrants whose deportations may
actually violate the U.S. Constitution deserved a chance to have their
pleas heard in court.
âOnce theyâre out of the country,â Boasberg said, âthereâs little I could
do.â
HA! HA! HA! Fuck them and fuck you too, judge.
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Siri Cruise wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to >>>> house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his
countryâs
prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Cheung is another one of Trump's rancid mouthpieces.
How soon before US citizens get sent to the Donaldov Gulag?
Is that a private prison or a government prison?
Like all things idjt, intentionally ambiguous to hide from courts.
On 3/19/2025 9:50 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Siri Cruise wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
âOopsieâŚToo late,â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who
agreed to house
about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in
his countryâs
prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about
Boasbergâs ruling. That post was recirculated by White House
communications director Steven Cheung.
Cheung is another one of Trump's rancid mouthpieces.
How soon before US citizens get sent to the Donaldov Gulag?
Is that a private prison or a government prison?
Like all things idjt, intentionally ambiguous to hide from courts.
Court records are open to the public, especially Trump's. Despite
what his detractors claim, his life is based on public exposure.
Knock yourself out finding what he "hid".
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