WATCH: White House defends Trump administration deportations despite federal order to stop temporarily

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday again said the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge ordered the deportations to be temporarily stopped.

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"All of the planes that were subject to the written order of this judge departed U.S. soil, U.S. territory, before the judge's written order," Leavitt said at a news briefing.

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Leavitt said there are questions about whether the judge's verbal order "carries the same weight as a legal order, as a written order."

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