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President Donald Trump's administration made a calculated decision to ignore a judge's directive to turn around two flights containing hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.The verbal order from the chief judge of the Washington, D.C., District Court, James Boasberg, explicitly told the government to turn around any aircraft that had already departed the country if it was still in the air.

Finding the deportations would cause irreparable harm, Boasberg barred the Trump administration from deporting "all non-citizens who are subject to the AEA proclamation" for at least 14 days, imposing a temporary restraining order or TRO.During that time, while the lawsuit makes its way through the courts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is meant to keep the noncitizens in its custody.

However, top lawyers and officials in the administration made the determination that since the flights were over international waters, Boasberg's order did not apply.The administration said that the planes needed to land because of "operational" and "national security" reasons, sources told ABC News.It was during the hearing that the two planes took off.

Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources

TRUMP does what MAGA wants. We want those democrats in PRISON back in their **** HOLE countries. And look, we got er done.