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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump team ordered to return illegally deported Venezuelans after lawyers told judge to ‘pound sand’

A federal judge ordered Donald Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of illegally deported Venezuelan men who were sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador last year, saying lawyers for the government told him to “pound sand” when he asked them how they can go about challenging their removal.

“Apparently not interested in participating in this process, the Government’s responses essentially told the Court to pound sand,” District Judge James Boasberg wrote Thursday.

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