The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members,

The president invoked this authority to deport nearly 300 of them who are now in El Salvador," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country has accepted hundreds of violent gang members deported from U.S. to be housed in El Salvador's notorious prison.