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 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 apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.
“Oopsie…Too late,” 👹Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s 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 in Trump- like jargon:
“We 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.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af