President Trump has moved to fulfill a campaign pledge by accelerating deportation efforts, in part with the controversial use of a wartime law to expedite removals. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show a higher pace of arrests since Trump took office, but a slightly slower pace for deportations than in the final year of […]
The Justice Department later admitted the deportation was carried out “through administrative error”, though it argued the deportation itself was not unlawful—only that it violated a specific court order prohibiting his removal to El Salvador.
The Trump administration deported alleged Venezuelan gang members citing a 1798 wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act.