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As I have emphasized multiple times, THESE FLIGHTS WERE PUBLICLY TRACKED! They were private charter planes contracted out by ICE like nearly every other ICE Air flight! They were met in El Salvador by a huge camera crew and a media spectacle!

Nothing about this was secret! This is such nonsense.
First, Defendants are currently evaluating whether to invoke the state secrets privilege as to portions of the information sought by this Court’s order. Whether and how to invoke that privilege involves both weighty considerations and specific procedures that are not amenable to the 21-hour turnaround period currently provided by this Court’s order.1 This Court itself raised the possibility that the Government might raise the state secrets privilege as a potential basis for not producing information. See, e.g., 3/17/25 Tr. at 9:25-10:18. The Government cannot hastily conduct an evaluation of the invocation of that privilege except in exigent circumstances, and the flightpath of an airplane that landed three days ago is not an exigent circumstance warranting such evaluation.
March 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM