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Judge Tells U.S. to Help Bring Back Deported Venezuelans or Allow Legal Challenges
A federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday that the Trump administration had to either help bring back to the United States a group of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March and subsequently sent back to their homeland or give them a chance to contest their expulsions in the U.S. courts.The ruling by the judge, James E. Boasberg, was the latest twist in the long-running saga of the Venezuelan men who were expelled from the country on March 15 under a proclamation by President Trump invoking the expansive powers of an 18th-century law known as the Alien Enemies Act. Mr. Trump used the act to summarily deport the men, accused of belonging to the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, to a notorious prison in El Salvador where many later claimed they had been tortured.
In the past nine months, the case of the Venezuelans has passed through every layer of the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, on a variety of issues — among them, whether the Trump administration should be held in contempt for having violated Judge Boasberg’s initial order stopping the deportation flights from going to El Salvador.
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Some members of the legal community are sticklers for adhering to the principle of due process, and some are not. I'll let you guess which side she comes down on.
Pam is seen here in attack dog mode, refusing to answer questions during an oversight hearing. I hope I didn't give her away.