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A senior Trump official told Fox News that 261 illegal aliens were deported to El Salvador over the weekend as efforts continue to throw the worst of the wort out of the country.
Of those, 137 were removed under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 Venezuelans were deported under Title 8, and 21 were identified as Salvadoran MS-13 gang members. Two were MS-13 ringleaders classified as “special cases” for El Salvador, the official said.
Watch the clip below:
REPORT: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller secretly orchestrated the Venezuelan gang members' flights to El Salvador to get the criminals out of the country before an activist judge could take action.
Brilliant.
According to Axios, the Trump administration *ignored* the court… pic.twitter.com/oojJSyxWgL
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President Trump thanked the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, for taking the violent criminals.
“Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership,” Trump wrote. “We will not forget!”
Trump also referred to the apprehended migrants as “the monsters sent into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats.”
Trump also defended his use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Trump defends using the Alien Enemies Act, saying, “This is a time of war — Biden let in millions, including criminals. That’s an invasion.” pic.twitter.com/xPOhQErMlO
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One Obama-appointed federal judge tried to prevent the deportations and ordered the plane carrying the violent illegal aliens to turn around.
But the plane was already over international waters.
“We did not defy a court order. The order came too late, and illegals were already in international airspace,” One Trump official said, as reported by Axios.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed that statement, telling Fox News that the order “had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist [Tren de Aragua] aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.”
“The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict,” Leavitt said. “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.”
Border Czar Tom Homan blasted the judge on Fox & Friends Monday morning.
“Who in their right mind, whether you’re a judge or not, wants [to allow] TDA [Tren de Aragua], a recognized terrorist organization sent here by the Maduro regime, to create havoc, to unsettle the United States through the use of fentanyl to kill thousands of Americans, violence to American citizens, raping and murdering young women in this country…?” Homan asked.
“President Trump is going to make this country safe again. He’s going to do it. One illegal alien at a time.”
Watch Homan’s clip above.
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