Here’s how Trump is continuing deportation flights despite court setbacks

Published March 26, 2025 6:00am ET



The Trump administration this week resumed expelling hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, through alternative methods not barred by a federal court.

Despite an active court order blocking mass deportations under a wartime-era law, at least one plane departed the United States on Sunday amid the fallout from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg‘s March 15 order, which halted deportations carried out under the Alien Enemies Act. The judge’s order was responsive to a suit filed by five Venezuelan nationals who alleged their rights were violated when they were loaded onto flights containing around 250 migrants bound for a prison complex in El Salvador.

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