Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign was pressed by Judge James Boasberg during the hearing in Washington, DC, about who in the Trump administration was involved in ordering three deportation flights to El Salvador,

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg won’t lift his earlier ban on the deportation of immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, denying a Trump administration request and ruling it likely violated the due process rights of migrants who were deported to El Salvador.

There is a "fair likelihood" the Trump administration violated a court order temporarily blocking the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a rarely invoked 18th-century law, a U.S. judge said on Thursday.