In apparent defiance of a federal judge's order, the Trump administration has flown hundreds of illegal aliens from the United States to El Salvador, where they were received by that nation's president on Sunday.
President Donald Trump publicly thanked El Salvador President Nayib Bukele "for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership," said the president on Truth Social.
"We will not forget!"
The President added that the deported men are "the monsters sent into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats."
Among those who were deported to El Salvador were offenders with criminal backgrounds that include sexual abuse of a child, kidnapping, aggravated assault, prostitution, aggravated assault of a police officer and robbery.
The White House was ordered on Saturday to cease and desist from deporting any Venezuelan nationals for two weeks in answer to a lawsuit brought by the leftist organizations the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democracy Forward aimed at suspending the deportations.
The lawsuit was an extraordinary response to a Saturday Presidential Order seeking to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was last used by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt to justify the internment of about 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
The judge's order came just after President Trump publicly announced the Executive Order, indicating that information about the Trump deportation plan may have been leaked to the ACLU and Democracy Forward, adding urgency to their lawsuit.
Some legal scholars have asserted that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is only applicable during a time of war, and that the administration's invoking the act was itself unconstitutional.
