Tonight on PBS News Weekend, despite a court order, hundreds of Venezuelans are deported

to El Salvador under a rarely used 18th century law.

Then the Doge layoffs at the FAA and what they could mean for aviation safety. And after a week of climate change rollbacks at the EPA,

the evidence of rising global temperatures that is alarming scientists.

We are already seeing truly dangerous climate consequences,

and they will just get more and more dangerous if we continue down this road.

Good evening. I'm John Yang. Nearly 300 Venezuelans are in El Salvador tonight after being

deported from the United States without a hearing under a rarely used 18th century law, and despite

a federal judge's order blocking the move. This morning El Salvador and President Naiba Kelly

posted a video on X showing them arriving and being taken into

custody. The Trump administration says they're members of a notorious Venezuelan gang called

Tren de Aragua and summarily deported them under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

They landed in El Salvador just hours after a federal judge blocked the administration from using that law to deport anyone and ordered any planes that had taken off to turn around.

Catherine Jan Ebright is a council at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Catherine, what do you make of that? The judge said these planes had to turn around and clearly they didn't.

I think that's a real challenge for the rule of law, our system of checks and balances.

I do think that part of this is that this is a district court, not a court of appeals.

And I should hope that as this case progresses, as we move past the

temporary restraining order or the judge's order in this case at this time, that the federal

government's compliance with the court's orders becomes serious and robust, again, consistent

with our system of checks and balances. What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, and how has it been used in the past?

The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime authority.

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