The White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador over the weekend, even as a federal judge ordered the deportations to be temporarily stopped.

White House officials argued in a court filing that it did not defy the ruling, arguing in part that because Boasberg's order was made orally rather than in written form, it was not enforceable - and that the planes had already left the US by the time it was issued.