The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison.

A US appeals court judge on Monday said the US gave Nazis "better treatment" during World War II than it did to hundreds of Venezuelans deported this month over alleged gang ties.

Venezuelan migrants targeted by the Trump administration for deportation under a little-used 18th-century law must be allowed to challenge the decision to remove them, a judge ruled on Monday in rejecting the government's request to set aside a temporary ban on such deportations.

The invocation of the state secrets privilege escalates a standoff between Trump officials and U.S. Judge James E. Boasberg over Venezuelan deportations.

The Trump administration has invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18t

Trade of Venezuelan oil to top buyer China stalled on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump's order threatening tariffs on countries buying from Caracas created fresh uncertainty, days after U.S.

The president plans to wield tariffs like financial sanctions, ordering that countries that buy Venezuelan oil have tariffs put on their exports to the United States.

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of 25% on US imports from countries that purchase oil from Venezuela. Trump described the move as a "secondary tariff" aimed at punishing the Latin American country "for numerous reasons", including allegedly "purposefully" sending gang members to the US.