Donald Trump’s administration goes to the clash with justice. The White House has insisted that the deportation flight to send more than 200 Venezuelans without papers to the prisons of El Salvador this weekend took off before the judge issued the order to block it. However, subsequently, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has implied on Monday that the judicial brake was really ninged by questioning the authority of a verbal order.
“All flights subject to the written order issued by this judge had already taken off from American soil before the judge wrote that order,” said Leavitt. But when a journalist has noticed that the judge had already issued a verbal order before the flight left the United States, the White House spokeswoman answered: “Well, there are real questions about whether a verbal order has the same weight as a written court order. And our lawyers are determined to resolve these issues in court. ” As has been happening for weeks, the Trump administration continues to advance in its campaign to erode the legitimacy of the Judiciary, the only current effective brake against the aspirations of the president of overreach.
The judge who issued the order to block deportation flights, James Boasberg, has summoned a hearing this Monday to ask for explanations to the White House about why, apparently, he ignored the precautionary measure. In oral arguments, the administration has defended that “a verbal order is not executed as a court order [escrita]”, Putting into question the scope of the judges. All probability, sooner or later this case will end up arriving at the Supreme Court to decide.
On Saturday afternoon, Trump invoked the law of foreign enemies of 1789 to accelerate the deportations of migrants linked to criminal gangs such as the Venezuelan the Aragua Train and the Salvadoran MS-13. Among other effects, the norm practically leaves the people to whom they are applied. For this reason, hours later, Boasberg resolved temporarily blocking it and stopped all deportation flights under its application, since it could cause “irreparable damage” in affected migrants.
Despite the precautionary order, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced Sunday morning that more than 250 Venezuelans had been deported to El Salvador under the category of “foreign enemies” for being, allegedly, linked to the criminal group El Train de Aragua. Even the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made fun of an X post where he wrote: “UPS … too late.”
The relatives of three Venezuelans who in February were deported to Guantanamo for being members of El Train de Aragua denounced that they had been falsely accused only of having tattoos. The question of whether the more than 250 people exported expressly to the Central American country have gone through a fair judicial process is in the air. El Salvador is known for having a penitentiary system that violates human rights, with overcrowded prisons where people get over in cells, as stated in a report from the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Tattoos and “information” to accuse
In the press conference, journalists asked Leavitt what criteria are used to demonstrate that deported people are part of the Aragua train, beyond based on tattoos, and if they are not innocent people who, by mistake, have been sent to one of the toughest prisons in the world. The White House spokeswoman replied that they use “information” and “the work of men and women on the ground that, under the previous administration, had their hands tied.”
According to the Venezuelan newspaper El Estimulo, One of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 24 -year -old named Francis, who irregularly entered the US. The Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) verified, when he stopped him in 2024, that the young man had no criminal record, but, according to his family in the middle, for having a tattoo and having said that he grew up in Maracay – where the band operates – linked him to the Aragua train. The family had lost contact with him on the weekend until he saw the photos of the deportation flight and recognized him.
Venezuela denounced on Monday that the transfer of the more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador on Sunday is a “vulgar kidnapping” and said that this operation was carried out without guaranteeing their human rights or due process. In addition, he announced that he will ask its citizens not to travel to the United States, since it is not “a safe country.”
The White House has confirmed that it has paid the Bukele regime approximately six million dollars to be able to deport these people. When last month El Salvador put his prison system at the Trump service, he not only offered it to retain migrants convicted of crimes in the United States, but also US citizens in the same situation.
It is not the first judicial contempt
The deportation of these people is not the first time that Trump disregard a judge. Federal judge John McConnell denounced that the Administration ignored its ruling on January 29 in which it ordered to reactivate the flow of federal aid for social programs, which Trump previously wanted to suspend.
In the text, McConnell says it has evidence that there are still federal subsidies and loans that remain suspended. Therefore, the judge has ordered the officials to comply with the “simple text” of the sentence. In the initially issued order, McConnell wrote that it was “clear and unequivocal and that there are no impediments to compliance by the defendants.” Trump’s lawyers brought the order to the Court of Appeals under the premise that “any legal challenge against them [de Trump] It is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the will of the American people. ”
This story has long been underway by the White House. On Friday, in a speech from the Department of Justice, Trump referred to himself as “the main chief of application of the law in our country”, insinuating that it is the highest judicial authority, when in reality that role corresponds to the Supreme Court and not to the President, which the Executive leads.
On Thursday of last week, the Trump government filed an appeal before the Supreme Court to eliminate a key tool that the lower courts have used to block several actions of its agenda. Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme to stop or file three judicial orders at the federal level against his attempt to eliminate the right to citizenship by birth. In the emergency appeal, it is argued that district judges have no authority to issue general orders that block policies throughout the country. If the Supreme Court accepts the appeal and validates the argument that district judges have no authority beyond their jurisdiction, Trump would manage to get rid of an important obstacle to their plans.
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