The Trump administration refused to hand over flight data requested by a federal judge about the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, warning that doing so would put state secrets at risk.

Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted his judicial commands.

Not only is the Trump administration being cagey in court about details of its deportation flights shipping supposed Venezuelan gang members to be imprisoned in El Salvador, but Donald Trump is now acting like he didn't sign the order behind the deportation flights in the first place.

The first flight carrying Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States lands in to Venezuela, after the two governments reached an agreement Saturday to resume repatriation flights.

A plane of people deported by the Trump administration landed in Venezuela, the first since that country agreed to restart repatriation flights.