Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced yesterday that hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members were sent from the U.S. to El Salvador, a day after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to cease such deportations.

The immigrants were deported under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has been used only three times prior and requires a president to declare the United States is at war.

A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador - in apparent defiance of a US judge's order preventing the Trump administration from doing so.El Salvador's president,