https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/26/judge-declares-jurisdiction-over-somali-deportation-case
Federal judge claims jurisdiction over Somali deportation case
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim
Jan 26, 2018
A federal judge in Miami ruled Friday that his court has jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit challenging the deportation of 92 Somalis who are in detention centers in Florida.
The undocumented men and women were on a botched deportation flight on Dec. 7 bound for Somalia that was rerouted back to the U.S. after it made a stop in the West African country of Senegal.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles had extended several times a temporary hold on the deportation of the Somalis, saying he needed time to weigh whether he has jurisdiction over the case. The government had argued that the court doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear the detainees’ cases.
In December, several detainees on the flight filed a class action lawsuit that claimed the men and women should not be deported because of the escalation of violence carried out by the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s failed attempt to send them to the East African nation.
• Dec. 13: For Minnesota Somalis, a raw, rising fear of deportation
Some of those on the flight said in the lawsuit that immigration agents physically and verbally abused them during the flight, which lasted for 40 hours, including 23 hours when the flight was on the ground at an airport in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.
“Based on the unique circumstances of this case, including the botched flight, the resulting news coverage, and escalation of violence in Somalia, the Court finds it has limited jurisdiction to ensure Petitioners are able to exercise rights afforded to them under U.S. law,” Gayles wrote in his ruling on Friday.
The detainees have requested the court stay their removal so they could apply to “reopen their removal cases to assert claims for asylum, withholding of removal, or relief under” the international convention against torture, according to a court document.
The government has argued that the Somalis could try to reopen their cases from Somalia. But Gayles said that was impossible.
“The Court finds troubling that the government would seek to immediately re-remove Petitioners when their claims arose, in great part, from the government’s own alleged misconduct,” Gayles wrote. “Petitioners cannot effectively pursue motions to reopen from Somalia where they would likely be forced underground to avoid persecution immediately upon arrival. The Court is unpersuaded by the government’s position that Petitioners can meaningfully pursue a motion to reopen from Somalia. It is unclear how Petitioners could access their immigration files or witnesses in the United States with relevant information pertaining to the December 7th flight, all the while attempting to avoid persecution in Somalia.”
A status conference on the case is scheduled for Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. at the United States District Court in Miami.
Good resource.
“That ban expired two weeks ago and the U.S. has begun accepting refugees again from Somalia and 10 other high-risk nations.”
It seems logical to think that, once a nation achieves the pinnacle of this kind of stupidity, that reality will flood in and eradicate that nation from history.
A large part of the American people spoke loudly and frantically in the last election to no avail, evidently.
I mean, we still have a huge investigation going on over the Trump Russian collusion hoax, after it has been proven to be a hoax, with no crime and no evidence and all the responsible parties seems powerless to stop it.
When you bring a savage into this country, he remains a savage. He will be dependent on us for the rest of his life. His subhuman ideology will rule his life, and prevent him from becoming civilized.
None should be in this country.
More proof ELCA sucks!
The average IQ in Somalia is 68. Below room temperature. 30 points below the US average.
Amazing what attaching the label of “Baptist”, “Catholic” or “Lutheran” to these resettlement programs can do for acceptance but have nothing to do with the denominations. Pure and simple way to get taxpayer dollars handed to the organizations...
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[11] In 2008, the government revealed thousands of Somali families had fraudulently entered the U.S. as “refugees” by lying on their applications that they were to Somalis already living in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal originally reported on how this fraud was uncovered by DNA tests, which led to a four-year closure of the so-called P-3 family reunification program for refugees coming from East Africa. The program was eventually restarted and none of the thousands of Somalis proven to have entered the U.S. by these fraudulent means were ever deported.
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Govt. It cannot even do ONE of its *few* mandated/authorized J-O-B(s). Yet, some people, even around here, think ceding MORE control to govt is the ‘answer’ [IE: e-Verify].
‘Logic’ like that, no wonder the Republic is in the shape it is...
Living in Minnesota, I can say that I never heard of the incident [No. 14] in North Dakota where a Somalian killed an American Indian family.
There are many more incidents that never get covered or are deliberately withheld from the public.
Several false incidents in St. Cloud of so-called Islamophobia turned out to be hoaxes by Somalians.
The St. Cloud Hospital has had many [between 75-100] crucifixes broken and thrown into waste baskets by Somalis who claimed to be offended by them.
Nurses at the same hospital report problems with the male Somalis who will not listen to their advice, and who disrespect them. I know of one incident where a female nurse was leading a Somali man to his room, and he barged ahead of her and passed by the correct room. Eventually he had to come back. [Muslim men never EVER allow a woman to walk in front of them.]
Same day surgery patients who are Somalis sometimes insist that blankets used to cover them after a surgery then belong to them. They have tries to take the blankets away from the nurses.
The St. Cloud Crossroads Mall, where the stabbing incident took place, has had instances of feces on the floor in the bathrooms after newly arrived Somalis used the restrooms.
Now some of these are not crimes
For good or ill - people bring their cultures with them.
If Americans aren’t overwhelmed with ‘immigrants’ they can assimilate people given enough time. But theres too many of them - and not enough energy left for the process from us.
Thank God we elected Trump before this situation hit the the point of no return and ALL of us lost... immigrants AND Americans.