US deports hundreds of immigrants despite court order barring the move

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US deports hundreds of immigrants despite court order barring the move  The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th-century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/03/17/us-deports-hundreds-of-immigrants-despite-court-order-barring-the-move  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S.

00:06despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an extraordinary statement that

00:12a judge did not have the authority to block its actions.

00:16The deportation operation followed a move by Judge James Bosbach to block President

00:20Donald Trump's use of alien enemies' acts, all-time powers, to rapidly deport more than

00:26200 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion

00:33and counter-killings.

00:34A video released by El Salvador's Government Sunday showed men being hustled out of an

00:39airplane and into waiting buses by officers in riot gear.

00:43The migrants were taken to the notorious Yakut facility, the centerpiece of Salvadoran President

00:49Nayib Bukele's push to pacify his once-violence-wrecked country through tough police measures and

00:57limits on basic rights.

00:59Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government in a statement Sunday rejected the use of the Trump's

01:03declaration of the alien enemies act, characterizing it as evocative of the darkest episodes in

01:09human history, from slavery to the horror of the Nazi concentration camps.

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