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Sadly, this lede is also not an April Fool’s joke: “The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison. From the man’s attorney: “They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief. If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”

+ Jonathan Blitzer in The New Yorker: The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act.

+ “When the flight attendants joined GlobalX, it was a startup with big plans. It sold investors and new hires alike on a vision of VIP clients, including musicians and sports teams, and luxury destinations, especially in the Caribbean. ‘You can’t beat the eXperience,’ read a company tagline.” (The eXperience changed.) ProPublica: Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is Only a Matter of Time.