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The Trump administration has denied allegations it violated a court order to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador on Saturday.
Yesterday the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, argued that the planes had already exited US territory when a DC district judge gave a written order prohibiting their departure, even though Flightradar24 records appear to show at least one flight left ten minutes after the ruling.
No matter for the Oval Office.
Leavitt claimed on Monday that federal courts didn’t have jurisdiction over the president’s actions, which the press secretary suggested were designed to “repel a declared invasion”.
Trump ordered the removals using a 1798 wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act, which allows for the rapid deportation of people from countries at war with the US.
The law had only previously been invoked three times and not since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour.
Reminder: the US is not at war with Venezuela, or with any other country except itself.
