The United States paid El Salvador $6 million to take in Venezuelan illegal immigrants slated to be deported to their home countries, the White House said Monday. The Trump administration sent at least 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang living illegally in the U.

The White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador over the weekend, even as a federal judge ordered the deportations to be temporarily stopped.

The Venezuelans “don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here,” added Leavitt, quoting the lyrics of the hit song “Closing Time.”