A New York Times review of flight data showed that at the time of a federal judge’s order, two flights were in the air, and one had not yet taken off.

If any planes were already in the air, the judge said, they should turn back.

That did not happen. Instead, the Trump administration sent more than 200 migrants to El Salvador over the weekend, including alleged gang members, on three planes.

A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order, and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.

    • mkwt@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      The entirety of Indian Removal (aka the Trail of Tears) was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court, but it still happened anyway.

      80,000 non-alien US citizens of Japanese descent were sent to concentration camps for years, under this exact same Alien Enemies Act. This was also illegal (Ex Parte Endo).

      Somehow, “American Democracy” and “Constitutional rights” are deemed to have survived those incidents.