Border Czar Again Blasts Judges, Vows To Continue Deportations: 'Well, I Don't Care'

President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, slammed judge James Boasberg over his challenge of the administration's decision to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador.

Speaking to ABC News, Homan said the administration won't defy court orders, but added that deportations already conducted will stand despite the judge deeming justifications for them "woefully insufficient."

"Despite what he thinks, we're going to keep targeting the worst of the worst, which we've been doing since day one, and deporting them from the United States through the various laws on the book," Homan said.

An appeals court is set to hear arguments on the invocation of the act and determine whether to uphold the block of the centuries-old wartime law, which allows authorities to conduct deportations with almost no due process.

The administration's lawyers are set to argue that the judiciary has no right to meddle in the use of the Alien Enemies Act, saying deportations fall under the president's Article II powers to remove alleged terrorists from the country. Judge Boasberg, in the meantime, continues to determine whether the administration willfully ignored his order to block the deportation flights.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is also standing by the decision to invoke the act, telling Fox News that the country is currently engulfed in "modern-day warfare" and that the administration is going to "continue to fight that and protect American citizens every single step of the way."

Bondi went on to say that the wartime act was justified in this case because those targeted for deportation were members of Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua and they posed a safety risk.

Family members of several deportees have denied their loved ones are part the gang, claiming in some cases that they don't have criminal history in the U.S. or abroad, and in others that they were targeted for tattoos they have even though Tren de Aragua is not believed to have any such identifiers.

Trump officials have also linked the gang with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro's regime, with White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz saying that the "alien sedition act fully applies because we have also determined that this group is acting as a proxy of the Maduro regime."

"Maduro is deliberately emptying his prisons in a proxy manner to influence an attack on the United States," Waltz added.

However, he New York Times reported last week that a recent intelligence assessment contradicts that claim and concluded that is not the case. The assessment, which represents the consensus of multiple intelligence agencies, reportedly determined that the gang was neither directed by the Venezuelan government nor committing crimes in the United States on its behalf.