The Trump administration Monday insisted it had not violated a court order by expelling hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations.
“The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from US territory,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X. “The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.”
Leavitt asserted that the president has a constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and to “remove foreign ...