A federal judge just ordered President Trump to bring back all Venezuelan criminal illegals deported to El Salvador as well as other third-party countries.
The judge, James Boasberg, is still angry that his verbal order wasn’t ‘obeyed’ last year when he ordered an El Salvador-bound plane returned, which was carrying criminal illegals to the CECOT prison. And he’s still trying to remedy that.
Here’s the news via ABC:
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of the Venezuelan migrants who were were deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison last year in violation of a court order.
Boasberg on Thursday criticized the administration’s refusal to offer remedies for the deportees for what he called “flagrant” due-process violations.
“Our starting point is the Court’s prior finding that the deportees were denied due process,” Boasberg wrote. “Against this backdrop, and mindful of the flagrancy of the Government’s violations of the deportees’ due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose.”
The judge’s order requires the government to provide “boarding letters” and cover the financial cost of air travel for the Venezuelans currently in third countries who “so desire” to return to the U.S.
While Boasberg’s Thursday order directed the government to facilitate and fund the return of the Venezuelan deportees currently in third countries, he stopped short of extending the order to those in Venezuela due to sensitive “foreign affairs” concerns.
The government is required to file a status report by March 13 explaining how and when it will transport the Venezuelans seeking to return to the U.S. from a third country, Boasberg said. For the men in Venezuela, the government is being ordered to “inform the Court as to the feasibility of returning Plaintiffs still in Venezuela who wish to return for their proceedings.”
Boasberg said the government has a duty to “remedy the wrong that it perpetrated.”
I fully expect this to be appealed and we’ll see where it goes from here. I honestly don’t know where the court will come down, however even if they did uphold it, I think Trump could just re-deport these illegals to Venezuela, since he has a great relationship with them now.