President Donald Trump Administration The alleged members were deported From the Venezuelan gang, Treen de Aragua from the United States to El Salvador on Sunday, despite the court’s order prohibits their expulsion from the country.

This step is the latest in a series of steps taken by the Trump administration to expel foreign citizens – some of whom are accused of being in the United States without documentation, others targeting campus protests.

Here is what happened, and whether it violates the court.

What happened?

The President of El Salvador Naeb Boucley said on Sunday that his country had received 238 members from the Venezuelan gang, Trine de Aragoa, and 23 additional members from the Silvadori MS-13 gang from the United States.

Bukele agreed to imprison members of these groups on behalf of the United States at a meeting with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio last month.

He added that these deportees were in the custody of the center of the country in Central America to imprison terrorism (CECOT) for one year that could be extended.

During Trump’s inauguration speech, he said that he would call the law of foreign enemies 1798. On Saturday, Trump signed a declaration calling for this 227 -year -old law. The advertisement claims to see de Aragoa “commit, try, and threaten the invasion or predicators” against American territory. He adds that all Venezuelan citizens between the ages of 14 or the largest “members” in the gang and are not the non -naturalized or permanent American citizens are vulnerable to reform and removed as “foreign enemies.”

After Trump’s order, federal judge James Boasberg, chief judge in the provincial court in Colombia, issued a temporary order to restrict Trump’s ability to exercise war powers to carry out deportations. This was during a hearing on Saturday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

But hours later, Bokley confirmed that the Trump administration had advanced with deportation. He participated in an excerpt from a news article about the judge’s ruling, which reaches the name: “Olopsie … after it is too late”, with expressive symbols of crying.

What is the action of foreign enemies and how does it work?

The law of foreign enemies allows the American president to detain or deport non -citizens during the war conditions. In 1798, the United States was preparing for what it believed was a war with France. The law was presented to prevent immigrants from sympathy for the French.

The law allows the president to implement this deportation without a hearing and is based only on citizenship.

The law was called only three times before the 1812 war, the First World War and the Second World War.

Why is this controversial?

While Trump and his allies have argued that the United States is threatening the “invasion” of illegal immigrants, critics say the president is calling for the law of war.

An explanation published by the Brennan Center for Justice last year says that calling the law “at the time of peace to bypass the traditional immigration law will be amazing mistreatment.”

“The courts must strike any attempt to use the ladder time for the law of foreign enemies,” he added.

The fifth amendment to the American constitution protects the right of the major jury. “No person may be held to respond to a capital, or a notorious crime, unless this is in providing or accusing a major jury,” adding that wartime time is one of the few exceptions to this.

The fact that the Trump administration has challenged the judge’s order to increase this controversy.

Patrick Edengton, a legal expert at the Kato Institute in Washington, DC, told Reuters that the White House’s work was in the “open challenge” of Judge Bouasberg, a legal expert in internal security and civil freedoms at the Washington -based Cato Institute, to Reuters.

“This goes beyond the pale and certainly unprecedented,” Edington said.

But the White House press secretary Caroline Levitte pushed back against criticism.

“One judge in one city cannot direct aircraft movements … full of foreign foreign terrorists who were physically expelled from the American soil,” Levitte said in a statement posted on her X account. She added that “federal courts in general have no jurisdiction for the president’s behavior for foreign affairs.”

Bruce Vin, an American lawyer specializing in constitutional and international law.

The president is not king. January 20, 2025, was not crowning. The president is not Napoleon … Federal courts have a jurisdiction for the president.

The administration did not “refuse to comply with the court’s order. The order, which did not have a legal basis, was issued, after the terrorist foreigners of TDA removed from the American region. The written system and the actions of the administration are not inconsistent. https://t.co/dnjusuwtlh

Caroline Levitt (Presssec) March 17, 2025

Levitt argued that by the time the court order was issued, the deportees were removed from the United States. The exact time of the deportation trip is unclear.

Steve Vladik, a professor at the Jur -Town University Law Center, published that “the jurisdiction of the federal court does not stop at the edge of the water.” In other words, according to Valdik, these deportees must be returned to the United States even if they leave the American airspace by the time when the judge issued his order.

“The jurisdiction of the court eliminates the presence of the defendant in the United States, not the prosecutors,” explained, adding that Trump, the defendant in this case, is in the United States. “He can be asked to remove the illegal deportees to the United States.”

Why did these immigrants send to El Salvador?

Bukele wrote in X Publishing, for example. The Trump administration will pay nearly 6 million dollars to El Salvador to attend about 300 members of the alleged Trine de Aragua from Venezuela for a year.

The President Al -Salvadori also shared a video on his account, showing the fired deportees who are dragged and their heads and faces shaved by the disintegrated Al -Salvador police officers.

“The United States will pay very low fees for them, but it is high for us.”

Today, 238 members of the Venezuelan Criminal Organization arrived, Trine de Aragoa, to our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Center, for one year (renewed).

The United States will pay very low fees, … pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpd6

– Nayib Bukele (nayibbukele) March 16, 2025

Venezuela usually did not accept the deportees from the United States. The Trump administration sent the Venezuelan deportees to third countries in Central America “because the United States has no decent relations with Venezuela.” Al -Jazeera earlier.

Last month, Venezuela accepted about 350 deportations, including about 180 detainees in Guantanamo Bay The US Navy base in Cuba, for 16 days. As of 2022, there were 275,000 unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants in the United States, according to Pew Research Center estimates.

What is Cecot?

Centro De Confinamiento Del Terrorismo, which means the center of terrorism, is a maximum imprisonment of 40,000 people in El Salvador. This is where the alleged gang members who have been deported by the United States are held.

The huge prison prohibits visiting, education and entertainment. Prisoners are not allowed to go out in the open air.

CECOT was opened in January 2023, within a year of the agent who requested construction. It is located in Ticoloca, 72 km (45 miles) east of the Salvadian capital, San Salvador.

What is Tren De Aragua?

Tren de Aragua, a Spanish for the “Aragua Train”, has been appointed as a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States.

While information about the group is few, media reports previously suggested that the group was formed in 2014 by Hector Guerrero and two other men who were imprisoned in Tocoron Prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua. The gang is largely controlled by imprisonment, and robbery, killing and kidnapping were ordered behind bars.

It is claimed that the gang was behind the killing of former Venezuelan army officer, Ronald Ogida, who conspired against President Nicholas Maduro. In January, Maduro was right For a period of six years after the controversial elections.

An advertisement published by the White House claims to see de Aragua “working in conjunction with Cartel de Los Salls, and the Nicolas Maduro Foundation sponsored by the Narco regime in Venezuela.”

What next?

On Sunday, Trump asked the Capital Court to reside in a matter of Bouasberg. “The residence will definitely be refused within days,” Fayne predicted.

Fine added that Trump can then seek to reside in the United States Supreme Court, “which will say,” No. “