The government says two of the planes were already in the air, and so those migrants had already technically been removed from the U.S. The third flight departed after the judge’s orders, but the Justice Department says everybody on that plane was being deported under the normal immigration law and so wasn’t covered by the judge’s ruling, which dealt with the Alien Enemies Act.
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The government says two of the planes were already in the air and so those migrants had already technically been removed from the U.S.
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