President Trump’s Justice Department provided an update to a radical judge’s order forcing planes en route to Central America carrying dangerous Venezuelan aliens to turn around and come back to the US.
On Saturday, Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointee, granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.
Far-left America-hating leftist groups such as the ACLU and Democracy Forward, rushed to a DC court in a desperate bid to shield dangerous illegal aliens from deportation.
Judge Boasberg’s TRO halted deportation of the aliens for 14 days.
Later Saturday, Judge Boasberg issued an emergency injunction and ordered the Trump Administration to turn around planes that were deporting dangerous Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang members.
“Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished,” Boasberg said, according to Politico. “Make sure it’s complied with immediately.”
There were reportedly two flights en route to Central America. One flight bound for El Salvador likely already took off.
On Sunday morning El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mocked Judge Boasberg after two flights from the US carrying approximately 300 Venezuelan aliens and other gang members landed in El Salvador.
Bukele tweeted, “Oopsie…Too late ” with a screenshot of The New York Post with a headline that reads, “Fed judge orders deportation flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gangbangers to return to US after Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act”
Oopsie…
Too late pic.twitter.com/nDHL6deLJq
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
Bukele also posted video of the first 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in El Salvador where they will be locked up at CECOT for the foreseeable future.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
Later Sunday, the Trump DOJ provided an update to Boasberg’s order and said the criminal aliens were outside of US territory when the order came down.
The Judge has zero jurisdiction over international airspace.
In other words, too bad.
“For the reasons explained on the record, Federal Defendants object to this Court’s assertion of jurisdiction, including over the President’s exercise of powers vested in him by Article II. Subject to that objection, Federal Defendants were promptly notified of the Court’s temporary restraining order issued in the morning and the 7:26 PM EDT minute order that temporarily enjoined any removals pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation. Federal Defendants have sought emergency appellate relief from the D.C. Circuit as to both orders; the Court of Appeals has now ordered expedited briefing on both motions. The five individual Plaintiffs that were the subject ofthe first TRO have not been removed,” Trump’s DOJ wrote.
“Going forward, and in the absence of appellate relief, Federal Defendants will continue to protect the United States using authorities other than the Proclamation. Federal Defendants further report, based on information from the Department of Homeland Security, that some gang members subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory under the Proclamation before the issuance of this Court’s second order,” the DOJ wrote.
No clarity on whether they were “in the air” still or not. pic.twitter.com/f329bgUBN7
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 16, 2025
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