A judge barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the U.S.

A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he needed to issue his order immediately because…

A judge barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the U.S.

A judge barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the U.S.

Trump invokes wartime authority to expel Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, sparking legal battle and international controversy.

“I do not believe I can wait any longer and am required to act,” the judge said during a Saturday evening hearing.

-The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an extraordinary statement that a judge did not have the authority to block its actions. The deportation operation followed a move by Judge James Boasberg to block President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act's wartime powers to rapidly deport more than 200 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion and contract killings. "A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft ... full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

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.