Protesters rally at El Salvador's mission to the United Nations in New York on April 24 in support of immigrants who were sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post) By Jeremy Roebuck

The first Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under a rarely invoked wartime law must be given the opportunity to challenge their removals even if they remain outside the United States, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

U.S. District Court Chief Judge James E. Boasberg said those 137 migrants — whom the government accused of being members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang — were “plainly deprived” of their right to contest their removals before they were flow

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