The Justice Department revealed in a Tuesday court filing that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ultimately decided to let a group of deportees proceed to El Salvador, despite a judge’s order requiring the flights to return to the United States. The disclosure comes as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg continues investigating whether the Trump administration defied his mid-March directive halting deportation flights — including his verbal instruction that officials “turn the plane around”

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