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US deports over 200 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador despite court ban

Prison guards transfer deportees from the United States, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador [El Salvador presidential press office/AP]

The United States has flown more than 200 immigrants, alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has said, after his US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them.

The deportations on Sunday took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, apparently as planes were already headed to El Salvador.

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