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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicholas Riccardi

Would President Donald Trump deport The Beatles? A judge asks the question

Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney board a plane at Heathrow Airport for their tour of America (PA) - (PA Archive)

A judge in America has raised a provocative hypothetical during legal arguments around President Donald Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime statute to deport Venezuelan gang members: ‘Could a president deport The Beatles?’

Jennifer Walker Elrod, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, asked whether the same law could be deployed against a "British invasion" deemed to be corrupting young minds.

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