In court and the media, the Trump administration spent Monday asserting its power to deport asylum seekers without due process—and to ignore judges who get in the way.
"We are not stopping," Tom Homan, the administration's border czar, told Fox News on Monday. "I don't care what the judges think."
A similar message was reportedly delivered in a less direct way at the federal courthouse in Washington, where Trump administration lawyers refused to give direct answers to Judge James Boasberg's questions about the deportation of over 200 Venezuelans over the weekend. Boasberg was trying to figure out the timeline of those deportation flights—some of which seem to have departed after he issued an order on Saturday halting them—but Justice Department attorneys said they could not disclose more information due to "national security" reasons, The New York Times reports.
