The Trump administration deported more than 200 people who it claims are members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang, to El Salvador this weekend, multiple members of the administration said on social media on Sunday.
It was not immediately clear if the deportations happened before or after a federal judge in D.C. on Saturday issued an emergency order that told the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport people, and turn around any planes already in the air.
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“Ooopsie… too late,” Bukele posted, in response to a news headline about the judicial order.
With the migrants now in El Salvador, it’s unclear what jurisdiction U.S. courts have over them. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the timing of when the planes landed, or whether any migrants could be returned to the U.S. in response to the court’s order.
“Man who regularly breaks law without consequence continues to break law without consequence. More at 11!”
…and the constitutional crisis continues.
Actually, if nobody steps up and busts his ass for this, the crisis is over. So is the Constitution.
… so no contempt of court? Every person “just following orders” from the top on down needs to be arrested, charged, and detained until the courts decide on the punishment for refusing to follow the law. Unless that happens there’s no law and no Constitutional Republic in play.
Have fun paying your taxes, fellow peasants.
Bullets need to start flying. And I’m waiting for that day.
He didn’t use the act. He just did it.
The seldom-used law that gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation during wartime. It’s the first time the act has been used since World War II.
And the reason that it hasn’t been used since World War II is that Congress has not actually declared war since World War II.
They’ve never declared war, yet we’ve almost constantly been at war. Real weird, that one.
We’ve been in armed conflicts not war. Don’t ask me to define the difference because I don’t get it either.
That’s because the piece of shit never suffers any consequences cos our government is full of bad actors and pussies
We all knew he would. And he’ll suffer no repercussions for his crime.
Maybe we should just have a judge follow Trump around to instantly countermand his illegal orders.
