March 16, 2025 – Trump DOJ responds to Judge Boasberg’s order to turn around planes deporting Venezuelan gang members

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238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrive at CECOT, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. (Credit: video clipping)

President Trump’s Justice Department provided an update to a radical judge’s order forcing planes en route to Central and South America carrying dangerous Venezuelan aliens to turn around and come back to the US.

Judge James Boasberg (Credit: public domain)

(…) Later Saturday, Judge Boasberg issued an emergency injunction and ordered the Trump Administration to turn around planes that were deporting dangerous Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang members.

“Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished,” Boasberg said, according to Politico. “Make sure it’s complied with immediately.”

There were reportedly two flights en route to Central America. One flight bound for El Salvador likely already took off.

On Sunday morning El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mocked Judge Boasberg after two flights from the US carrying approximately 300 Venezuelan aliens and other gang members landed in El Salvador.

Bukele also posted video of the first 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in El Salvador where they will be locked up at CECOT for the foreseeable future.

Later Sunday, the Trump DOJ provided an update to Boasberg’s order and said the criminal aliens were outside of US territory when the order came down.

The Judge has zero jurisdiction over international airspace. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/16/2025)  (Archive)

Attorney General Pam Bondi has unleashed a blistering emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, demanding an immediate stay of an “outrageous overreach” by Obama-appointed District Judge James E. “Jeb” Boasberg.

The motion, filed early Saturday morning, accuses Boasberg of sabotaging the Trump administration’s national security agenda by issuing an “unauthorized” Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that blocks the removal of dangerous illegal aliens tied to the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA)—a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

The explosive filing accuses Boasberg of acting without jurisdiction, without evidence, and without even hearing from the government—rushing to issue a 14-day TRO just hours after five anonymous Venezuelan plaintiffs filed a class-action complaint. (Gateway Pundit, 3/16/2025)

These plaintiffs, detained in Texas, claim they fear being wrongly swept up in Trump’s rumored plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to expel TdA members.

Their lawsuit, J.G.G. v. Trump, seeks to upend Trump’s lawful enforcement of immigration laws, arguing that invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a wartime measure historically used to remove hostile foreign nationals—is somehow “unprecedented” and “unlawful” during “peacetime.” (Gateway Pundit, 3/16/2025)

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