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The emergency request came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was flown back to the United States on Friday to face federal criminal charges. Devlin Barrett, who covers the Justice Department, explains the charges and what may come next for Garcia.
Besides El Salvador, where the United States have already sent detainees, Rwanda and Libya have records of mistreating migrant detainees.
The solicitor general contended that a group of migrants had barricaded themselves inside a Texas detention center and threatened to take hostages.
The judge pressed a lawyer for the Justice Department on the government’s role and responsibilities in the men’s deportation and incarceration in El Salvador.
Internal documents and interviews with people familiar with the operation reveal how the White House seized on a wartime law to accelerate immigrant deportations.
The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.
Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.
The Maryland Democrat accused the president of “gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights” and demanded the return of an immigrant and Maryland resident imprisoned in El Salvador.