On this photograph offered by El Salvador’s presidential press workplace, a jail guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Middle in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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On this photograph offered by El Salvador’s presidential press workplace, a jail guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Middle in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
AP/El Salvador presidential press workplace
“Oopsie, too late.” That submit on X from the President of El Salvador obtained retweeted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend with a laugh-crying emoji over a headline a couple of choose’s ruling.
The choose ordered the Trump Administration to not deport Venezuelans to El Salvador.
That got here after a Brown College doctor in the US on an H1-B visa from Lebanon was despatched again. Regardless that a federal choose issued an order that she seem at an in-person listening to on Monday.
In a court docket submitting right now, attorneys for the federal government stated US Customs and Border Patrol officers stated they did not study of the order till after the physician was despatched again.
The administration insists it’s not defying court docket orders. Trump hasn’t but brazenly and explicitly defied the courts. Can he undermine them simply by flirting with defiance?
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