Judge Boasberg orders return of Venezuelan deportees challenging Alien Enemies Act removal
Judge Boasberg certified a class of 137 Venezuelan migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act and mandated hearings or returns by Jan. 5 to address due process violations.
- A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a group of Venezuelan men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S. or give them a hearing to contest allegations of gang membership.
- The men were deported after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, declaring alleged Venezuelan gang members as enemies of the state who could be deported with little due process.
- A report by human rights groups determined that the treatment of the Venezuelan deportees imprisoned at the Salvadoran prison amounted to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance under international law.
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A recent court ruling ordered the Donald Trump government to define, within a specific time frame, how it will repair the removal of 137 Venezuelans that the court considered unconstitutional.The decision opened the door for some of these men to be able to return to U.S. territory or, at least, access to hearings that they never had.The group of Venezuelans reached by the court decisionThe order was issued by federal judge James Boasberg, who an…
US court orders Trump to provide deported migrants due process
A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to provide due process to Venezuelan migrants who have been removed from the US and flown to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador. Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that President Donald Trump’s administration’s deportation of 137 Venezuelan migrants to the anti-terrorism prison in March was illegal. The order requires…
Boasberg Allows Deported Migrants to Return to U.S.
Obama-appointed Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelan migrants who were removed from the United States and sent to El Salvador. Boasberg claimed that the United States “maintained constructive custody over Plaintiffs while they were imprisoned in El Salvador, thus affording the Court habeas jurisdiction over this action.” “The Court finds that the only remedy that would give effect to it…
Federal judge James Boasberg ordered on Monday the administration of President Donald Trump to allow the return to the United States of a group of Venezuelan men deported earlier this year, so that they could legally challenge the accusations that motivated their expulsion.
Judge Boasberg: Trump admin must facilitate return of over 100 deported Venezuelans or give them due process hearings
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration must either facilitate the return of more than 100 Venezuelan men — deported earlier this year to El Salvador's CECOT megaprison — or provide them with due process hearings to challenge their removal and purported gang ties.
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