Donald Trump’s use of an 18th century law to summarily deport dozens of Venezuelan immigrants who never got a chance to challenge their removal was like something from a surreal Franz Kafka story, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday.
The Trump administration “plunged” those men into a brutal Salvadoran prison after swiftly deporting them from a detention center in Texas on March 15 — despite a “mandate” from District Judge James Boasberg that was “ignored,” the judge wrote.
