Posted on 05/07/2025 5:44:17 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order that blocks the Trump administration from deporting illegal Asian migrants to the African country of Libya, or any other third world country.
The move comes after lawyers filed an emergency motion earlier in the day, seeking to stop the deportations that were reportedly scheduled for sometime this week. The Trump administration has not formally commented on the plans.
The lawyers claimed that the migrants, who came from Laos, the Philippines and Vietnam, among other places, were expected to be loaded onto a U.S. military aircraft and transported to Libya, according to NBC News.
The court document, which was filed in the U.S District Court in Massachusetts, also said the migrants were being deported “without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination."
The development comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that the administration was "actively searching for other countries" to send illegal migrants to.
“We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your countries,’” Rubio said. “‘Will you do that as a favor to us?’ And the further away the better, so they can’t come back across the border.”
Libya has denied discussions with the U.S. about taking in migrants, and said it rejects the U.S. deporting migrants there without its knowledge or consent.
“The lawyers claimed that the migrants, who came from Laos, the Philippines and Vietnam”
Why are we not sending them to Laos, the Philippines and Vietnam?
Fear screening?! For whom, the criminal or the victims of this country? George is getting upset!
Send them to Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya etc. They need the slave labor and would be welcomed there. Illegals are not welcome in the USA - not enough housing, tax dollars need to be spent on Americans.
No law gives a judge that authority. The alien enemy act specifically excludes judge’s authority.
Federal judge prohibits Trump from having bowel movements…(making sure he can’t do s#it)
How come “our” judges never did anything to stop Xiden?
Why not just send them back to where they left from?
They are not being deported under that act.
ACLU again maybe?
They’ve become a terrorist organization themselves
Brilliant.
“The alien enemy act specifically excludes judge’s authority.”
Until trump begins deporting the 1.4 million that have deportation orders from biden’s term, we are not doing it right.
Either their home countries are refusing to take them back or they are refusing to be sent back, making assylum claims. Finding a 3rd country willing to take them that they are willing to go to gets them gone faster and avoids their bogus due process claims.
Send them all to Martha’s Vineyard.
Quote from the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:
Article 32. - Expulsion
1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.
2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent authority.
3. The Contracting States shall allow such a refugee a reasonable period within which to seek legal admission into another country. The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during that period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees
What does Trump have to do to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention?
Send (or hand deliver) the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres a letter!
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations:
I, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States, on behalf of the United States, do denounce the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as permitted by Article 44.
Donald J. Trump
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“Building a wall is a red herring”
“The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”
Elon Musk
Hmmm...
More leaking?
The administration inherited 200,000 pails, all full of holes...
Time to get really serious about stopping them...
I'm guessing those countries don't want them back.
Which brings rise to the problem with deportations. Some countries won't accept them back --- maybe because the illegal alien lied about his country of origin? Or maybe they are just evil violent criminals?
Anyway, what do you do then? Guantanamo? Alcatraz? Martha's Vineyard?
These judges need a good caning, by an expert from Hong Kong. Say, 100 strokes. As a warning to the rest.
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