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A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act

The Associated Press · Nicholas Riccardi · last updated
An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans, to a prison in El Salvador. Here is a timeline of events surrounding the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.