Judge Says Trump Admin’s Response on Deportations ‘Woefully Insufficient’

A federal judge said on March 20 that the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on the timing of deportation flights shuttling hundreds of Venezuelan nationals out of the United States was “woefully insufficient” and accused officials of shirking their responsibilities under his order that called for the flights to cease. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is considering whether the administration violated his March 15 order that temporarily blocked the deportation flights amid a pending lawsuit from several anonymous Venezuelan nationals. On Thursday, he issued a new order, giving Justice Department officials until March 25 to explain why their actions in not bringing the deported illegal immigrants back to the United States did not violate his previous order....