If any planes were already in the air, the judge said, they should turn back.

That did not happen. Instead, the Trump administration sent more than 200 migrants to El Salvador over the weekend, including alleged gang members, on three planes.

A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order, and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.

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    This is what happens when there is no more rule of law. Now migrants are sent away, tomorrow citizens will be arbitrarily jailed and criminals freed, next political opponents will be gunned in the streets while the cops will be told to look the other way.

    Wake up US. Fight this, no one will if you don’t.

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      12 hours ago

      Yep, it’s that “And then they came for me” statement being played out in realtime.

      Asylum seekers are being deported, visa holders are having them canceled, permanent residents are being detained, and they’re even working on stripping citizenship of Americans born to non-American parents.

      I feel like the eventual next step is stripping citizenship from dual nationals and deporting them to whatever other country they are a citizen of.