Plaintiffs in a legal case against the U.S. government on March 17 urged a federal judge to seek answers from the government regarding compliance with President Donald Trump’s orders on deportation flights.
“Plaintiffs remain extremely concerned that … the government may have violated the Court’s command,” lawyers for Venezuelan immigrants told U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a filing.
The judge in a March 15 order told government officials not to remove any of the immigrants from the United States for 14 days absent additional direction from the court. During a hearing that day, according to the plaintiffs, the judge told government officials that any plane carrying the illegal immigrants “that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States, but those people need to be returned to the United States.”…