More than half of the 261 immigrants expelled to El Salvador on Saturday were swept out of the United States using a wartime powers act, a White House official said Sunday, amid questions about whether the Trump administration flouted a judge’s order barring use of the statute to hasten deportations.

FileThe Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it.And late on Sunday, the White House said the judge who gave that order did not have the authority to block the administration’s actions.