White House Says Deportation Flights Didn’t Defy Judge’s Order

The White House said on Sunday that deportation flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization—did not conflict with a judge’s order that blocked such actions because the ruling was issued after the flights had already left U.S. territory. “The Administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft … full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.”...