Trump Administration Defends Deportation Flights After Court Order

Jorge Rodríguez (Venezuelan politician)national Assembly President

They are not detaining them, they are kidnapping them and expelling them,

Jorge Rodriguez, President Nicolas Maduro’s chief negotiator with the U.S., told reporters Monday

James Boasbergjudge

You shall inform your clients of this immediately, and that any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,

Boasberg told the government's lawyer Saturday night

If that is how the government proceeded, it was a blatant violation of the Court’s Order,

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