Judge says US government could be in contempt over deportation flights

法官表示,美国政府可能因遣返航班的行为而构成藐视法庭。

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2025-04-17

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The Trump administration is accused of "wilful disregard" of a ruling blocking the deportation of alleged gang members to El Salvador. Also: new speed climbing record set in the Swiss Alps.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC, World Service.

  • I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Thursday, the 17th of April, these are our main stories.

  • A US judge says he's found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for disregarding his order to halt the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.

  • The head of the World Trade Organization says international trade will be hit hard by President Trump's tariffs and poor countries will suffer disproportionately.

  • And the UN's top non-proliferation official says Iran is not far from developing a nuclear weapon.

  • Also in this podcast, the mountaineers who broke the record for scaling the north face of the Iga in the Swiss Alps.

  • We hope that we have maybe around 19 to 21 hours that we were so fast that we climbed in 15 and a half,

  • it was kind of insane.

  • Throughout his campaign, President Trump promised voters he would get tough on immigration,

  • pledging mass deportations of millions of people living in the US without authorization.

  • And in March,

  • the administration used an obscure wartime law to deport a group of migrants

  • since it alleges were Venezuelan gang members to a mega prison in El Salvador.

  • That's despite a US judge ordering the flight to be turned around.

  • Now that judge, James Bosberg,

  • has said that the Trump administration could be in contempt of court for disregarding his order.

  • Our North America correspondent, Jake Kwan, told us more about what the judge said.

  • What the judge is saying that the White House must explain itself on why it did not follow the judge's order.

  • I mean, when the judge gave this order to turn the flight around,

  • the White House had said that, oh, the flight's already left.