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A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration lost a deadline for the Court to reveal details about deportation flights to El Salvador, climbing the president Donald Trump’s Legal battle continues with the Judiciary.
The US District Judge, James Boasberg, said the government lawyers did not comply with the deadline that proposed to present information about the deportation flights of the administration, who included people who were attacked for immediate elimination under the law of Alien enemies of 1798, and if they challenged their court order.
In an abrasing order sent Thursday night, the judge said that the government “again evaded its obligations” to present information about flights, even after offering them the opportunity to do so under seal. The presentation they presented was hours late and did not answer their questions.
On the other hand, he said, the court received a statement of six paragraphs from a regional director of the ICE office in Harlingen, Texas, who notified the court that the cabinet secretaries are “actively considering whether to invoke the privileges of state secrets (ACT) on the other facts requested by the order of the court.”
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President Donald Trump is seen in a photo divided from side to side with the United States district judge, James Boasberg, for the United States Columbia district court. ((Credit of the photo associated press/getty images))
“This,” he said, “is unfortunately insufficient.”
Boasberg on Saturday had granted an emergency restriction order that blocks the Trump administration to use the 1798 law for Venezuelan national athlensIncluding the alleged members of the Trena de Aragua gang, for a period of 14 days. He also ordered that any flight in the air return to the United States floor immediately.
Hours later, however, an plane that transported hundreds of American migrants, including Venezuelan citizens retired under the law in question, arrived in El Salvador.
President Donald Trump and US district judge James Boasberg. (Getty images)
Boasberg immediately ordered the Government to present more information to the Court, as part of a “investigation hearing” to determine if the Trump administration knew their order and how many people were deported.
After the government did not fully comply, citing national security problems, they told them that they could do it under sealed for Thursday.
Boasberg had asked the government lawyers to present information about how many airplanes the US left on Saturday that led to the deported people “only” on the basis of that proclamation, how many people were on each plane, where the planes landed, at what time each plane of the United States took off and from where
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Pam Bondi (C), speaks before Bondi jure as attorney general of the United States in the Oval Office of the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
“To begin, the government cannot offer an ICE regional official who will attest to the discussions at the level of the cabinet on the privilege of state secrets; in fact, his statement at that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his ‘understanding)’.
He then ordered the Trump administration to present a summary before March 25 explaining why he did not violate his order by not returning the people in question about the first two planes that arrived from El Salvador to the United States on March 15.
“For March 21, 2025, at 10:00 am, the defendants will present a sworn statement by a person with direct participation in discussions at the level of the cabinet with respect to the invocation of the state-select privilege,” he added.
Boasberg previously warned of the Trump administration of consequences on Wednesday if he violated his order.
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Even so, at least one plane with deported migrants landed later that night in El Salvador. “Oopsie, too late,” said El Salvador president in an X publication.
In later days, government lawyers have refused Share information in court About deportation flights and if the plane (or airplanes) of migrants left knowingly from the American soil after the judge ordered them not to do so, citing national security protections.