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Trump Deports Hundreds to El Salvador Under Alien Enemies Act
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0:33Now PlayingThe Trump administration Monday insisted it had not violated a court order by expelling hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations.
“The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from US territory,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X. “The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.”
Leavitt asserted that the president has a constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and to “remove foreign alien terrorists from US soil and repel a declared invasion.”
Under an agreement Secretary of State Marco Rubio brokered with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, 238 members of the gang were transferred to a terrorism confinement center over the weekend, Bukele said on X.
The precise timing of the transfers wasn’t immediately clear. The US also has not publicly detailed how it identified the Venezuelans as members of the Tren de Aragua gang that’s been designated a foreign terrorist organization.
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