All posts tagged "Deportees"

A prominent immigration attorney was shocked over a report that could reveal if Immigration and Customs Enforcement was "telling the truth" about the last of three flights to El Salvador carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, wrote on X, "Whoa. @404mediaco reports that hackers have shared flight manifests for the 3 GlobalX flights to El Salvador on March 15. This could confirm whether ICE is telling the truth that the third plane, which took off after Boasberg's order had only people with final orders of removal."

The federal government had argued in court that it had no information to share about the flights, which were ordered to return to the United States, but proceeded to El Salvador because the government claimed they had already departed. ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele was skeptical that the deportees being flown from the U.S. to his notoriously rough Cecot prison were actually members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, according to new reporting in The New York Times.

And a demand he issued in exchange for taking the men triggered panic in the U.S. as it threatened to blow up a claim made by the Department of Justice, the report added.

Bukele flew to Washington, D.C. last month for an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, during which both men claimed that they had no power to return a mistakenly deported Maryland man, whom Trump asserted was a criminal but who received no Constitutional due process before being shipped out....

CNN's Sara Sidner was taken aback when a conservative pundit claimed President Donald Trump's alleged defiance of a federal judge's order this week was just "Trump being Trump."

Pete Seat, former GOP White House spokesperson, argued that no one should be shocked by Trump's actions, especially after watching the president's defiant Fox interview with Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.

Sidner began, "Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion to give Donald Trump wide presidential immunity, is snapping back at the president for his comments on a judge whose ruling Trump simply doesn't like." ...