In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
AP/El Salvador presidential press office
“Oopsie, too late.” That post on X from the President of El Salvador got retweeted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend with a laugh-crying emoji over a headline about a judge’s ruling.
The judge ordered the Trump Administration not to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador.
That came after a Brown University physician in the United States on an H1-B visa from Lebanon was sent back. Even though a federal judge issued an order that she appear at an in-person hearing on Monday.
In a court filing today, lawyers for the government said US Customs and Border Patrol officers said they didn’t learn of the order until after the doctor was sent back.
The administration insists it is not defying court orders. Trump hasn’t yet openly and explicitly defied the courts. Can he undermine them just by flirting with defiance?
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This episode was produced by Connor Donevan.
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