How it happened: White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Stephen Miller "orchestrated" the process in the West Wing in tandem
with Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem.
Few outside their teams
knew what was happening.
- They didn't actually set out to defy a court order. "We wanted them on the ground first, before a judge could get the case, but this is how it worked out," said the official.
‘Too Late’: Trump Deports Hundreds in Bizarre Video After Judge Orders Pause
Sean Craig
President Donald Trump‘s administration transferred more than 200 migrants to the custody of El Salvador early Sunday in a chilling video posted online just hours after a judge temporarily blocked the deportations.
The timeline: The president signed the executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night, but intentionally did not advertise it. On Saturday morning, word of the order leaked, officials said, prompting a mad scramble to get planes in the air.
- At 2:31 p.m. Saturday, an immigration activist who tracks deportation flights, posted on X that "TWO HIGHLY UNUSUAL ICE flights" were departing from Texas to El Salvador, which had agreed to accept Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S.
- Hours later, during a court hearing filed by the ACLU., Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations and said any flights should be turned around mid-air.
- "This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately," he told the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post.
- At that point, about 6:51 p.m., both flights were off the Yucatan Peninsula, according to flight paths posted on X.

Yes, but: The Trump administration was already spoiling for a fight over the Alien Enemies Act — one of several fronts on which they believe legal challenges to the president's authority will only end up strengthening it when the Supreme Court rules in his favor.
Between the lines:
Officially, the Trump White House is not denying it ignored the judge's
order, and instead wants to shift the argument to whether it was right
to expel alleged members of Tren de Aragua.
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