Trump Deportations
FILE - Migrants deported months before by the United States to El Salvador under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown arrive at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, July 18, 2025.
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A federal judge says he plans to move ahead quickly on a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct the probe and said he’d like to start any hearings on Dec. 1. The judge has previously warned he could seek to have officials in the administration prosecuted. On March 15, Boasberg ordered the aircraft carrying accused gang members to return to the U.S., but they landed instead in El Salvador, where the migrants were held at a notorious prison.