TRUMP ORDER WILL CAUSE BIG PROBLEMS FOR WORLD

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walks down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walks down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday,

The Trump administration said Sunday that hundreds of individuals were deported from the country after President Donald Trump invoked a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the deportations of migrants allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.The announcement comes after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act, which has only been used three times before, on Saturday evening, and verbally ordered any planes in the air carrying some of those migrants to turn back to the US. The judge said the temporary restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days “or until further order of the court.” One person familiar with the matter said the planes were already in the air at the time of the judge’s ruling.“Particularly given the plaintiffs’ information, unrebutted by the government, that flights are actively departing and planning to depart,

I do not believe that I’m able to wait any longer,” said US District Judge James Boasberg during the hearing. “Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States.”White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that at the president’s direction, the Department of Homeland Security had arrested nearly 300 members of Tren de Aragua over the weekend, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier Sunday that “hundreds of violent criminals were sent out of our country” after Trump took action on Saturday.Rubio also thanked El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, for offering to imprison the alleged criminals deported from the US and said that Bukele had requested that two leaders of the MS-13 gang, as well as 21 other Salvadorans being held in the US be returned to “face justice in their homeland.”The US will pay $6 million to El Salvador to house the deportees. The money, according to Bukele, will help sustain the penitentiary system, which currently costs $200 million annually. Bukele also said the action will help law enforcement gather intelligence and apprehend MS-13 members.Rubio later said in a post on X that the US “sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador. Also, as promised by @POTUS, 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.”Bukele posted on X Sunday morning that the members of Tren de Aragua arrived in El Salvador and have been transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center “for a period of one year.” His post included a video of men being led off of busses in handcuffs and having their heads shaved.Sharing a photo of an article about the Saturday ruling that deportation flights must return to the US, Bukele wrote “oopsie…too late.” Rubio reposted Bukele’s post.news has reached out to the State Department and White House for more information about when the flights left the United States.Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said “State of the Union” that he expects the executive branch is following the law, telling Jake Tapper “we don’t know if that happened that way” when pressed on if he’s concerned that the Trump administration potentially violated the court order.“We expect the executive branch to follow the law. We said in the past that we will follow the law. That will remain consistent,” he said, later expressing support for using “every legal means” possible to deport alleged criminals.“I think most Americans are going to say, ‘I don’t care how old the law is, if you can use it to get these guys out and keep my family safe, we’re going to do it,’” he said.Boasberg had initially blocked the administration from deporting five individuals who challenged Trump’s use of the act. Following a hastily scheduled hearing hours later, Boasberg broadened that temporary block, granting a request from the plaintiffs’ lawyers to cover all noncitizens in US custody who would be subject to Trump’s proclamation.Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials argued in a Sunday afternoon filing that “some gang members” were deported between Boasberg’s two orders on Saturday after his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. They added that the five plaintiffs from the first order have not been removed.Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said he believes it’s possible the Trump administration defied the court based on the Boasberg’s statements on Saturday, though it is still unclear when exactly the planes took off.“If in fact, you know, his order was clear and they went forward anyway, then they would, it seems to me, be in violation of his order,” Tobias said.Tobias said if Boasberg determines that there was, in fact, a “clear violation” of his order, then he could issue a stricter order laying out how exactly the administration should be complying with his guidance. If the administration were to defy that order, violators could be held in either civil or criminal contempt, Tobias said.While the Trump administration has threatened to defy court orders related to several of the president’s policies, Tobias said this case stands out due to its implications for the US’ standing on the world stage, and for the rights of the deported people.“This move, it seems to me, is one of the few orders that that does raise all kinds of questions about national security, as do some of the others, but also about how the United States conducts its business in the world, and so I think it is somewhat more far reaching,” Tobias explained, adding that Boasberg has demonstrated that he is “sensitive” to providing due process for the alleged criminals that the Trump administration says they have ejected from the country. has previously reported that Erik Prince, a Trump ally, has been in contact with Bukele since last year .House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that Democrats “stand strongly in support of the rule of law” in reference to the judge’s order, and warned against the potential impacts of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy.“All of us within the Democratic Party, we oppose illegal immigration. We believe that if you’re a violent felon, you should be deported. But we also can’t go down this road that the Trump administration is taking us on and potentially deport American citizens, deport legal and lawful permanent residents and break up law abiding immigrant families who are contributing to this country,” he said, expressing the need for “comprehensive” immigration reform.Cecot prison in El SalvadorWith capacity for 40,000 inmates, Cecot is the largest prison in the Americas and a symbol of El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on crime.Marvin VásquezRelated articleExclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El SalvadorIt is also notorious for the ruthless way it has treated prisoners, which human rights organizations say is inhumane and violates human rights. Between 10,000 and 20,000 inmates have been locked up in there. There’s no privacy, comfort or even an indication that the prisoners will ever be released.CNN visited the prison late last year and saw inmates locked up in crowded cells, with some holding 80 people or so. They slept in metal bunks with no mattresses, sheets or pillows. They had an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing, and a large jug for drinking water. The men were inside these cells for 23½ hours a day. They had a 30-minute daily break to leave the cell for the central hallway for group exercise or Bible readings.Critics have also pointed out that under the nationwide crackdown on crime in El Salvador, some constitutional rights like due process have been suspended. More than 80,000 people have been arrested throughout the country, accounting for more than 1% of the Salvadoran population. Bukele has admitted that some innocent people have been detained by mistake, and that several thousand of them have already been released. 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