Cartwright’s database shows that ICE has carried out 267 deportation flights under Trump, and that the president is using military-transport planes—whose operating costs are three to five times as high as conventional passenger aircrafts’—at an unprecedented rate.

Federal Judge James Boasberg ordered an extension of a temporary restraining order against deportation flights implemented by the Trump administration using the Alien Enemies Act. Boasberg has been at the center of MAGA fury this month as he has presided over the case involving the administration's deportation of migrants through President Donald Trump's implementation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Lower courts have temporarily blocked the government’s use of a wartime law to send Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison.