U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the Washington, D.C.-based federal judge whose clashes with President Donald Trump’s administration have often made headlines, made the front page again on Thursday night with orders to return deported Venezuelan migrants back to the U.S.
The return flights are for those deported via the CECOT prison in El Salvador, where the individuals had been taken after being removed under the Alien Enemies Act.
According toThe Associated Press, Boasberg’s order not only gives them a route to challenge their removal from the United States due to being designated members of the Tren de Aragua gang, but to challenge the use of theAlien Enemies Act, as well.
Boasberg, an Obama appointment, used his decision Thursday night to criticize the administration’s response to another order of his which would give the 137 individuals affected to challenge their removal from the United States.
“Apparently not interested in participating in this process, the Government’s responses essentially told the Court to pound sand,” Boasberg said in his ruling.
The order says that individuals removed to a third country both a boarding letter and airfare to return to the United States. The government could, he ruled, detain them when they returned.
His order said it was up to the administration to “remedy the wrong that it perpetrated here and to provide a means for doing so.”
“Were it otherwise, the Government could simply remove people from the United States without providing any process and then, once they were in a foreign country, deny them any right to return for a hearing or opportunity to present their case from abroad,” Boasberg wrote.
It’s unclear what the Trump administration’s next steps would be, although White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson immediately criticized the ruling.
Boasberg’s decision, Jackson said, was “an absurd, unlawful ruling from a far-left judicial activist trying to undermine the President’s lawful authority to carry about deportations.”
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