The Trump administration said Sunday that hundreds of individuals were deported from the country after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping wartime authority which has been used only three times before, to speed up the deportations of migrants allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

The announcement comes after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act, which has only been used three times before, on Saturday evening, and ordered any planes in the air carrying some of those migrants to turn back to the US. The judge said the temporary restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days “or until further order of the court.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that at the president’s direction, the Department of Homeland Security had arrested nearly 300 members of Tren de Aragua over the weekend, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier Sunday that “hundreds of violent criminals were sent out of our country” after Trump took action on Saturday.

What El Salvador is saying: Bukele said in a post on X Sunday morning that his country received 238 alleged members of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua from the US. The alleged TDA members were transferred to the Center for Terrorism Confinement, CECOT, the largest and newest prison in the country. They will remain there for a year, but that period can be extended, the president added.

The US will pay $6 million to El Salvador to house the deportees. The money, according to Bukele, will help sustain the penitentiary system, which currently costs $200 million annually. In addition to the alleged members of Tren de Aragua, the US sent 23 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha MS13 gang to El Salvador, who were wanted by the Salvadoran justice system, Bukele added in his post.

Rubio thanked Bukele in a post on X, whom he called a “friend” of the United States and “the strongest security leader in our region.” CNN has reached out to the State Department and White House for more information about when the flights left the United States.

Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he expects the executive branch is following the law, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper “we don’t know if that happened that way” when pressed on if he’s concerned that the Trump administration potentially violated the court order.

Read more about the deportations and the judge’s ruling here.

CNN’s Alejandra Jaramillo and CNN en Español’s Merlin Delcid contributed reporting to this post. This post has been updated with more reactions and reporting on the deportations.