US EditionHundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador have right to challenge detention, judge rules
- On March 15, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that 137 Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador must be granted the opportunity to legally contest their detention at the CECOT prison.
- The Trump administration used a centuries-old wartime law from 1798 to deport the migrants rapidly, circumventing standard immigration processes and denying them their legal right to due process.
- Boasberg found the migrants were deprived of notice and a chance to contest their removals and ordered the government to propose a procedure enabling habeas corpus petitions.
- Boasberg warned that without this remedy, the Government might detain individuals arbitrarily, deport them to another nation, and thereby prevent any opportunity to challenge or correct the action.
- The ruling limits executive deportation authority under the wartime law and requires the Trump administration to facilitate legal challenges, signaling judicial checks on immigration enforcement.
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By Osmary Hernández, CNN en Español Prayers and lit candles accompanied the vigil in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas by a group of relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador, where they remain detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot). Their demand remains the same: the release of their loved ones. Among them was Melitza González, mother of José Gregorio Briceño, who says he has…
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s government should facilitate Venezuelan migrants expelled to El Salvador to challenge their cases and give him “a week” to say how he will do it. In March, the Republican president invoked the Foreign Enemies Act of 1798, used until then only in times of war, to expel Venezuelan migrants to a megaprison in El Salvador. Trump accused them of being members of the Aragua Train band, d…
5 Points On Boasberg’s Big Alien Enemies Act Ruling
After being mostly scuttled by the Supreme Court, the original Alien Enemies Act case has re-entered the conversation. While the high court took most of the Alien Enemies Act challenges out of the hands of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of D.C. and distributed them to the individual judicial districts where Venezuelan nationals are being detained under the act, it left unresolved the fate of the deportees already removed to CECOT in El Salv…
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