Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. Amna Nawaz is away. On the news hour tonight,

the Trump administration invokes wartime powers to deport hundreds of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang without any court hearings.

The president dismantles the U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America,

and the news and information

it has provided to people living in autocratic countries for decades.

And despite an increase in autism diagnoses, law enforcement often lack training to respond

effectively to people with developmental disabilities.

The more we can educate the officers as to what kind of resources they have available,

and the more we can bring people on the autism spectrum to share their stories

that has more of an impact. Welcome to the News Hour.

A U.S. federal judge today asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including alleged gang members over the

weekend, escalating the confrontation between the president and the federal courts.

Laura Barone Lopez starts our coverage.

Their plane touched down in La Paz El Salvador.

And within moments, they were hustled onto the tarmac and into buses.

More than 200 immigrants deported en masse from the U.S.

Shackled, their hair shaved off, and now locked in one of El Salvador's most infamous mega-prisons.

It came after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,

a sweeping wartime authority allowing the president to detain and deport citizens of a, quote,

enemy nation, without a hearing of any sort.

These were bad people.

That was a bad group of, as I say, d'ambres.

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