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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March greenlit the Trump administration’s decision to proceed with deporting more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador despite an emergency court order, the Justice Department said Tuesday — news that injects fresh friction into a high-profile, politically fraught immigration fight.

Noem’s role in the Alien Enemies Act removals was detailed publicly for the first time in a disclosure Tuesday night to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, as part of a newly revived contempt inquiry.

According to the declaration, senior Justice Department officials relayed the emergency court order, and a subsequent oral order to Noem, who decided that the migrants that had already been removed from the U.S. could

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