Judge won't lift block on Trump use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg declined to lift a restraining order barring the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, determining migrants are likely to succeed in pushing for hearings on whether they are in a gang.

Boasberg noted President Trump’s “unprecedented use of the Act outside of the typical wartime context” in signing an order that allowed the removal of any Venezuelan suspected of being a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.

“Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on another equally fundamental theory: before they may be deported, they are entitled to individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all,” Boasberg wrote.

“Because the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are members of Tren de Aragua, they may not be deported until a court has been able to decide the merits of their challenge.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5210593-trump-boasberg-alien-enemies-act-deportation-venezuelans/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. So

How do we get these folks back to the US for their hearings since Trump broke the law?

[RainCaster]

2. Send those ice officials to Gitmo

Until those people are all returned.

[orangecrush]

4. Most likely

You don't, under this administration.

[bluesbassman]

5. Good question. That's assuming they even know who all they sent other than a headcount for CECOT's payment contract.

And unfortunately, how many are still among the living.

[Polybius]

7. We don't

They are probably stuck there indefinitely.

[flamingdem]

3. Thanks Judge Boasberg

Let's hear what they have to say

Boasberg agrees Trump is owed great deference to invoke the AEA, but says deportees must have a real chance to argue they are not subject to Trump's proclamation — and a chance to contest incarceration in El Savaldor, where there is a "likelihood of potential torture."

[Harker]

6. The glee with which Bukele wrote, "Oopsie... Too late" doesn't bode well.

I doubt that they will all make the trip back. Maybe none will.

[ck4829]

8. Kick