Posted on 03/16/2025 11:08:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening blocking the deportations but lawyers told him there were already two planes with migrants in the air — one headed for El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.
“Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who negotiated an earlier deal with Bukele to house migrants, posted on the site: “We sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.”
The migrants were deported after Trump’s declaration of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has been used only three times in U.S. history.
The law, invoked during World Wars I and II and the War of 1812, requires a president to declare the United States is at war, giving him extraordinary powers to detain or remove foreigners who otherwise would have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to justify the incarceration of Japanese American civilians during World War II.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Now arrest the judge for sedition and as an accomplice to illegal immigration. SWAT raid.
The judge wanted them to turn around in mid-air. At that point in time, it would be up to the pilot to make that determination. He has to consider the safety of the passengers. Apparently, he did not think it was safe to do so.
I thought that these decades we were always declared to be at war?
Waiting for one of these judges to declare Trump’s presidency null & void.
Roberts is loving this.
Send the judge to bring them back ,LOL
“The judge wanted them to turn around in mid-air. At that point in time, it would be up to the pilot to make that determination. He has to consider the safety of the passengers. Apparently, he did not think it was safe to do so.”
The pilots were not ordered to turn around. They had no determination to make.
Way past time to tell these corrupt arrogant judges to piss up a rope.
Who runs the country? Is it The President or leftist federal judges?
Trump administration deports migrants despite judge’s order halting removal
_____________________________________________________
Awww, gee wiz!
I had a long statement I was ready to post, but your little cartoon says it all!
I’m curious about the judge’s reasoning. The extradition was illegal? Let’s suppose it is. The judge’s job is to protect the rights and lives of citizens first, right? Why would illegal aliens have rights under US law? Okay, let’s say they do. What are those rights, and do they supersede the right of the president to execute his job? I’m perfectly happy that a lawyer can argue for the alien’s rights while the alien sits in some other country.
Straw judge, nobody pay you any attention, what you gone do!
Ya damn right Trump deported these criminal gang bangers..the left loves criminal alien gang bangers because they vote Democrat..they dont care who they murder or rape or rob, as long as they vote Democrat..this judge can kiss my a@@, Trump should tell him “Hey Buddy Im right here Im not hard to find”
Trump is in some ways the reincarnation of Andrew Jackson
Nelson Muntz for the Win!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.