March 16 (UPI) -- Using the Alien Enemies Act, President Donald Trump's administration has deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants from the United States to El Salvador whom it alleges are gang members despite a court order preventing their expulsion.

The Trump administration sent more than 200 immigrants it claims are members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador despite a court order.

The Trump administration invoked a wartime law from the 18th century to rapidly deport Venezuelans to El Salvador. A federal judge had issued an order temporarily banning the expulsions.

Despite a court order to halt deportations, the US has sent over 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.

The Trump administration plans to pay El Salvador $6 million to keep the alleged gang members in the country's notorious prison.

The United States has removed hundreds of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua using now-blocked authority from the 1798 Alien Enemie...

A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked any deportations that would occur under President Donald Trump's invocation of a little-used wartime law to expedite the expulsion of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

The White House said in a statement that it wasn’t defying the court but at the same time argued that it was perfectly within its rights to ignore the...

The news that hundreds of migrants were headed to an El Salvador prison caused panic for some Venezuelans, who worried that their loved ones might be among them.

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. U.S. District Judge James E.…

A judge issued an order Saturday blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already planes in the air.

The arrival of the immigrants took place under agreement between the Trump Administration and El Salvador's President.

President Trump commented on video from Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele, showing hundreds of alleged criminal migrants arriving in Central America after being deported from the U.S.