Leonel Moreno, who encouraged illegal migrants to “invade abandoned houses” in sick TikToks, was sent back to the narco state this week, after President Trump resumed deportation
The act is a wartime law that grants the commander-in-chief authority to detain or deport non-citizens. The implementation was previously blocked in federal court, sparking a contentious legal back-and-forth between the Trump administration and Boasberg.
Dozens of deported illegal migrants — including some suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers — grinned and waved proudly as they landed in their native Venezuela early Monday after
Attorney General Pam Bondi denied that the government violated a federal judge’s orders against deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members, instead accusing him of issuing “contradictory” oral and written rulings.
The Department of Homeland Security said that a deportation flight to Venezuela carrying 199 people had landed.
The Venezuelan government attributed a willingness to receive the flights to the plight of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process.
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Venezuela’s leader has described the deportation of more than 200 migrants sent by the United States to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador as a “kidnapping,” and denied they are criminals while backing calls for their return.