{"id":735,"date":"2025-03-19T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/19\/a-timeline-of-the-legal-wrangling-and-deportation-flights-after-trump-invoked-the-alien-enemies-act-the-associated-press\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:11:13","slug":"a-timeline-of-the-legal-wrangling-and-deportation-flights-after-trump-invoked-the-alien-enemies-act-the-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/19\/a-timeline-of-the-legal-wrangling-and-deportation-flights-after-trump-invoked-the-alien-enemies-act-the-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act &#8211; The Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>             By\u00a0             <span>NICHOLAS RICCARDI<\/span> and <span>REGINA GARCIA CANO<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                 <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1742339874000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                     <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                     <span data-date>\u00a0<\/span>                 <\/bsp-timestamp>             <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                                                          <bsp-page-actions>                                <\/bsp-page-actions>                               <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump\u2019s invocation of <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alien-enemies-trump-immigration-deportations-21a62ede23b8c493b60d00a9c125722f\">an 18th-century wartime act<\/a><\/span> to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans, to a prison in <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/el-salvador\">El Salvador<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It involved a series of legal filings, White House announcements, court hearings, deportation flights and a mocking social media post from a Central American leader who proudly calls himself the &#8221; <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-president-0ab3b1d63d3633c535b2cb9b60c56879\">world\u2019s coolest dictator<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is a timeline of events surrounding the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. All times are Eastern. <\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, March 15<\/h2>\n<p>__2:16 a.m.: Two legal advocacy groups \u2014 the ACLU and Democracy Forward \u2014 file suit on behalf of five Venezuelans held in immigration detention who fear they\u2019ll be falsely labeled members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and deported under the Alien Enemies Act, which lawyers expect to be invoked soon.<\/p>\n<p>__9:40 a.m.: Judge James E. Boasberg issues a temporary restraining order preventing the government from deporting the five plaintiffs. He schedules a 5 p.m. hearing on whether to expand it. The Trump administration swiftly appeals the order.<\/p>\n<p>__Roughly 4 p.m.: The White House posts the order invoking the Alien Enemies Act.<\/p>\n<p>__5 p.m.: Boasberg convenes a hearing and asks the government attorney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign, if the government plans to deport anyone under Trump\u2019s new proclamation \u201cin the next 24 or 48 hours.\u201d Ensign says he doesn\u2019t know and asks for time to find out, as the ACLU warns planes are apparently about to depart. Boasberg gives Ensign about 40 minutes to find out and recesses the hearing at 5:22 pm.<\/p>\n<p>__5:26 p.m.: An airplane with the tail number N278GX, believed by activists to be carrying deportees, leaves Harlingen, Texas, near the border with Mexico, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>__5:45 p.m.: Another airplane with the tail number N837VA, believed by activists to be carrying deportees, departs Harlingen.<\/p>\n<p>__About 5:55 p.m.: Boasberg reconvenes the hearing. Ensign says he still has no specifics. The ACLU again warns that planes are leaving. Boasberg says he has to issue a new order to avoid anyone being immediately deported.<\/p>\n<p>__Around 6:45 p.m.: Boasberg tells Ensign: \u201cInform 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.\u201d He verbally issues his order, which stands for 14 days, and notes that immigrants protected by it will remain in U.S. custody.<\/p>\n<p>__7:26 p.m.: Boasberg\u2019s written order is released. <\/p>\n<p>__7:36 p.m.: The plane with the tail number N278GX lands in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>__7:37 p.m.: An airplane with the tail number N630VA, believed by activists to be carrying deportees, departs Harlingen. Government lawyers later say this plane held no one deported under the Alien Enemies Act.<\/p>\n<p>__8:02 p.m. The plane with the tail number N837VA lands in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>__9:46 p.m.: The plane with the tail number N630VA arrives in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>__10:41 p.m.: The plane with the tail number N278GX departs Honduras.<\/p>\n<h2>Sunday, March 16:<\/h2>\n<p>__12:05 a.m.: The plane with the tail number N278GX arrives in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>__12:41 a.m.: The plane with the tail number N630VA leaves Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>__1:03 a.m.: The plane with the tail number N630VA arrives in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>__7:46 a.m.: El Salvador\u2019s president, Nayib Bukele, tweets a New York Post headline saying Boasberg had ordered planes turned around and adds \u201cOopsie \u2026 Too late\u201d and a laughing\/crying emoji. <\/p>\n<p>__8:13 a.m.: Bukele tweets footage of the deportees arriving and being processed into his country\u2019s <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/el-salvador-trump-prison-immigrants-4ab3fc3c0474efb308084604b61f8a37\">showcase prison<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>__8:39 a.m.: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posts Bukele\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>__9:29 a.m.: White House Communications director recirculates Bukele\u2019s laughing post <\/p>\n<h2>Monday, March 17<\/h2>\n<p>__5 p.m.: A hearing begins over what Boasberg has called the \u201cpossible defiance\u201d of his court order. Trump administration lawyers tell Boasberg that his verbal directions did not count, only his written order needed to be followed, that it couldn\u2019t apply to flights outside the U.S. and that they could not answer his questions about the trips due to national security issues. Boasberg calls the arguments \u201cone heck of a stretch.\u201d ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, warns that \u201cI think we\u2019re getting very close\u201d to a constitutional crisis. <\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday, March 18<\/h2>\n<p>__8:05 a.m.: Trump blasts Boasberg on his social media platform, Truth Social, for ruling against his deportation plans. \u201cThis judge, like many of the Crooked Judges\u2019 I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>__11:56 a.m.: Chief Justice <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/judges-security-threats-impeachment-e4f6a57da81e7037cb9ef8693f26e17a\">John Roberts<\/a><\/span> issues a rare public statement rejecting calls to impeach judges. \u201cFor more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press writer Tim Sullivan contributed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0 NICHOLAS RICCARDI and REGINA GARCIA CANO Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] \u00a0 An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump\u2019s invocation of an 18th-century wartime act to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans, to a prison in El Salvador. 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