Welcome to the News Hour. A U.S. federal judge today asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including alleged gang members over the weekend, escalating the confrontation between the president and the federal courts.

Laura Barone Lopez starts our coverage.

Their plane touchdown in La Paz El Salvador.

And within moments, they were hustled onto the tarmac and into buses.

More than 200 immigrants deported en masse from the U.S.

Shackled, their hair shaved off, and now locked in one of El Salvador's most infamous mega-prisons.

It came after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime

authority allowing the president to detain and deport citizens of a, quote, enemy nation, without a hearing

of any sort.

These were bad people.

That was a bad group of, as I say, d'ambres.

Aboard Air Force won last night, Trump defended the move, which he says targeted alleged

members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang linked to kidnapping, extortion,

and contract killings.

That's an invasion.

It invaded our country.

So this isn't, in that sense, this is war.

In many respects, it's more dangerous than war because, you know, in war, they have uniforms.

You know who you're shooting at. You know who you're going after. The U.S. paying $6 million to El

Salvador to detain the migrants. One part of the president's mass deportation plans playing out

in spite of a federal judge's quick weekend order to temporarily block it. The president Trump has made a promised American people.

On Fox News today, Trump's borders are Tom Homan brushed off the court's authority.

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