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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump-tapped judge blasts White House’s ‘utter disregard’ over wrongfully deported asylum seeker

Donald Trump’s administration has “utterly disregarded” a court order for information about a wrongly deported Venezuelan asylum seeker sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, told the man’s attorneys to put together a record of the administration’s “lack of compliance” — all but ordering contempt hearings in one of several high-profile legal battles over the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport immigrants.

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