"US 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." france24.com/en/americas/20250…
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US deports hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants despite court order
The Trump administration deported hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador and Honduras, defying a federal judge's order halting such actions under an 18th-century law aimed at Venezuelan gang members.FRANCE 24
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in reply to upstreamism • • •In addition to explaining the civil and constitutional violations inherent in all of this, this article does a decent job of pointing out how the Trump administration's deportation actions are built on precedents established by prior U.S. presidents who reputedly abided by the rule of law. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/17/t…
This will all be remembered in the same light that we now view Japanese-American internment during World War II.
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Trump Deportations May Run Afoul of U.S. Constitution, International Law
Jonathan M. Katz (Foreign Policy)