The White House denies challenging the judge’s order on deportations to El Salvador

The White House has denied an accusation of the rights groups that the due process floated challenging the order of a judge during a mass deportation over the weekend.

A group of 238 alleged members of Venezuelan gangs, plus 23 alleged members of the international MS-13 gang, were sent from the United States to a prison in El Salvador. Some of them were withdrawn from the country under an unused law since World War II.

The measure occurred despite a temporary block issued by a judge. The White House said the judge’s order itself was not legal and was issued after the group was deported.

Neither the United States government nor El Salvador has identified the detainees, nor provided details of their alleged crime or gang membership.

When announcing the move on Saturday, Trump accused Train of Aragua (TDA) of “perpetrating, trying and threatening an invasion or predatory raid against the territory of the United States.”

He invoked Alien enemies law, legislation dating from 1798, which was designed to allow non -citizens to be deported in times of war or invasion. Activists have questioned Trump’s justification.

The law was used to process 137 of the total of 261 people who were deported, said an official of the administration higher than CBS News, the US BBC partner.

The basis on which the other deportees were removed from the US. UU. They are still clear, and no details of the group have been revealed as a whole.

Several relatives of men who believe they are among the group told the New York Times that their loved ones had no gang ties.

The order to stop deportations from the United States District Judge, James Boasberg, on Saturday night, who demanded a 14 -day pause waiting for more legal arguments.

After the lawyers told him that the aircraft with deportees had already taken off, according to the reports, the judge gave a verbal order so that the flights returned, although that directive was not part of his written ruling.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, denied that the court ruling has broken. “The administration was not” denied to comply “with a court order,” he said.

“The order, which did not have a legal basis, was issued after TDA terrorist aliens (Aragua Train) had already been withdrawn from the US territory.”

The Department of Justice echoed Leavitt, saying that the deportees had already left before the judge’s ruling, so he has appealed.

The case raises constitutional questions since, according to the US control and balances system, government agencies are expected to meet the ruling of a federal judge.

The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, confirmed the arrival of the deportees. “Oopsie … too late,” he said about the judge’s order, writing on social networks. His team also published images of some of the men within one of their megádolas.

The rights groups accused Trump of using a 227 -year law to avoid due process.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questioned the use of Trump of a radical authority that allows fast -track deportations. “I think we are in a very dangerous territory here in the United States with the invocation of this law,” said Lee Gelernt of the organization.

The alien enemies law only allowed deportations when the United States was in a war declared with that foreign government, or was being invaded, Gell said. “A gang is not invading,” he told BBC News.

The act was last used during World War II to intervene Japanese-American civilians.

Empaling things was the fact that “the Administration says that no one can review what they are doing,” Gelernt added.

Meanwhile, the US Amnesty. UU. He said deportations were “another example of the racist orientation of the Trump administration” of Venezuelans “based on radical sharpening gang affiliation.”

Venezuela criticized Trump, saying that “unjustly criminals Venezuelan migration.”

The latest deportations under Trump’s second mandate are part of the president’s long campaign against illegal immigration.

The president of the United States has also moved to strengthen ties with El Salvador.

Trump declared that the two gangs attacked with mass deportation “foreign terrorist organizations” after returning to the White House in January.