On this picture supplied 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 Heart in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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On this picture supplied 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 Heart in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
AP/El Salvador presidential press workplace
“Oopsie, too late.” That publish on X from the President of El Salvador bought retweeted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend with a laugh-crying emoji over a headline a couple of decide’s ruling.
The decide ordered the Trump Administration to not deport Venezuelans to El Salvador.
That got here after a Brown College doctor in the USA on an H1-B visa from Lebanon was despatched again. Despite the fact that a federal decide issued an order that she seem at an in-person listening to on Monday.
In a courtroom submitting at this time, attorneys for the federal government stated US Customs and Border Patrol officers stated they did not be taught of the order till after the physician was despatched again.
The administration insists it isn’t defying courtroom orders. Trump hasn’t but brazenly and explicitly defied the courts. Can he undermine them simply by flirting with defiance?
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