Judge James Boasberg had earlier asked the Trump administration to provide more details about weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador — despite his order to turn the planes around.
Judge Boasberg's role overseeing a new case that challenges the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvadorhas cast an even brighter light on the longtime judge.
President Trump justified his use of a wartime law to deport people. The CEO of Democracy Forward argues that the president is using it to claim powers not granted to him under the Constitution.
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
President Trump says he would deport American criminals to El Salvador "in a heartbeat" if it were legal. An ACLU attorney tells NPR that such an idea "would be blatantly unconstitutional."
A U.S. official said the Trump administration had no plans to try to deport American citizens. The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with legal challenges.
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of emergency.
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has won plaudits both at home and abroad for his indiscriminate security crackdown that has seen more than 1% of the country's population put in prison.
At least twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal match in the Salvadoran league Saturday.
