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• The US treated alleged Nazis better during World War Two than the Trump Administration treated Venezuelan migrants last week, a federal appeals judge told a Justice Department lawyer during a contentious court hearing. “There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” US circuit judge Patricia Millett said. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.

• It came hours after US federal judge James Boasberg ruled that the migrants deserved to have a court hearing before their deportations to determine whether they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. He thwarted the Trump administration’s bid to vacate restraining orders protecting Venezuelans accused of gang ties from deportation, instead insisting on due process for those contesting the allegations. “The named Plaintiffs dispute they are members of Tren de Aragua; they may not be deported until a court decides the merits of their challenge,” Boasberg wrote.

• A law firm will present a habeas corpus lawsuit to El Salvador’s supreme court in defense of 30 Venezuelan citizens jailed in the Central American nation’s so-called “mega-prison” after being deported there by the US. The lawsuit, which will seek to question the legality of their detention, comes after the US sent some 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing them of being members of Tren de Aragua.

• In an extraordinary blunder, the White House accidentally texted top-secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen to a journalist. Key figures in the Trump administration – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app Signal to convene and discuss plans – while also including a prominent journalist in the group. The breach was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic magazine, who discovered that he had been included in the chat. The National Security Council said: “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.”

• Trump announced that any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on trades made with the US. This “secondary tariff” will take effect on 2 April, the president said in a Truth Social post. He cited “numerous reasons” for the move, including his baseless repeated claim that “Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature”. China is the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil, with Spain, Italy, Cuba and India also consumers.

• On the issue of tariffs, Trump said he will in the very near future announce tariffs on automobiles, aluminum and pharmaceuticals. The president said the US would need all those products if there were problems including wars.

• Greenlandic leaders criticised an upcoming trip by a high-profile American delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Trump has suggested the US should annex. The delegation, which will visit an American military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright. Greenland’s outgoing prime minister Mute Egede called this week’s visit a “provocation” and said his caretaker government would not meet with the delegation. “Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede said. “But that time is over.”

• The agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant minors will be allowed to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement agencies under a regulatory change, a move critics say could discourage families from claiming their children. The US Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for the children until they can be released, will also scrap regulatory language that had prohibited it from denying release solely based on a sponsor’s immigration status.

• Trump appointed his former lawyer Alina Habba, who was previously sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, to serve as interim US attorney for the district of New Jersey. Habba represented Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case, which he lost, and again in the civil case against the Trump Organization’s civil fraud case, which he also lost. She said she looks forward to “going after the people we should be going after – not the people that are falsely accused”, but declined to elaborate further.

That’s all from me, Lucy Campbell, for today. But stay tuned, my colleague Sam Levin is here to steer you through the rest of the day’s developments.