Attorney general says deportation flights will ‘absolutely’ continue as judge’s noon deadline nears – live

Federal judge tells White House to provide more details about deportation flights by noon ET as a showdown over presidential power brews in courtWhite House’s defense for not recalling deportations ‘one heck of a stretch’, says judgeThe Trump administration turned the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members into a spectacle by sending around video of them arriving in El Salvador and being manhandled off the plane and into a detention facility.It appears to be part of a plan to encourage undocumented immigrants in the United States to leave voluntarily. Another aspect of the plan is the CBP Home app, which was formerly used under a different name by the Biden administration to manage arrivals of asylum seekers. Under Donald Trump, it has been rebranded and is now intended to facilitate departures of immigrants without visas, and the White House just released video of the president encouraging them to make use of it:People in our country illegally can self-deport the easy way, or they can get deported the hard way, and that’s not pleasant. Continue reading...

Mar 18, 2025 - 14:18

Attorney general says deportation flights will ‘absolutely’ continue as judge’s noon deadline nears – live

Federal judge tells White House to provide more details about deportation flights by noon ET as a showdown over presidential power brews in court

White House’s defense for not recalling deportations ‘one heck of a stretch’, says judge

The Trump administration turned the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members into a spectacle by sending around video of them arriving in El Salvador and being manhandled off the plane and into a detention facility.

It appears to be part of a plan to encourage undocumented immigrants in the United States to leave voluntarily. Another aspect of the plan is the CBP Home app, which was formerly used under a different name by the Biden administration to manage arrivals of asylum seekers. Under Donald Trump, it has been rebranded and is now intended to facilitate departures of immigrants without visas, and the White House just released video of the president encouraging them to make use of it:

People in our country illegally can self-deport the easy way, or they can get deported the hard way, and that’s not pleasant. Continue reading...