Donald Trump Won The Presidency in Part On Promises To Deport Immigrants Who Have Criminal Records and Lack Permanent Legal Status. But historiest executive Orders – Crying to Undo Birthright Citizenship, Suspending Critical Refugee Programs – Made Clear He Wants To Attack Immigrants with Permanent Legal Status Too. IN OUR SERIES Who gets to be American this Week?We’ll Track the Trump Administration’s Attempts to Delete An Ever-Gree Number of People from the American Experiment.
For the Past Six Months, President Donald Trump and Hist Administration Have Contorted, Stress-Tested, and Outtight Violet Law to Achieve His Delusional 1 Million Deportations Goal. The Judicial System has Been a Critical Check, ForCing the Federal Government to Follow the Law – Aight at Times It has Worked As Intended. But the Supreme Court has Been Throwing Wrenches in Our Legal Machinery That Often Seem to Defy Logic. In an order released this Week, The Court’s Conservative Justice Signaled Thes Are Unwilling to Stand Up To the Trump Administration and Wood Rather Allow the White House to Simply Defy Out Justice System AS Pleases.
Meanwhile, One Victim of the Trump Administration’s Lawlessness, Kilmar Embego Garcia, Was Finally Brought Back to the US after Mistakenly Deported Four Months ago. But Thanks to a Newly Unveiled Criminal Indictment and a Pending Immigration Detainer, It’s Highly unlikely that he will be return home to his Wife and Children Anytime Soon.
Here’s the Immigration News We’re Keeping an Eye on this Week:
Less Than Three Months After The Supreme Court shot down an injunction Preventing deportations under the alien enemies act, it release another historic shadow dock decision. The Majority of the Justices Chose to Lift a Lower Court Judge’s Injunction That Had, Up Up Until Monday, Prevent The Federal Government From Removing Immigrants From The Us To Third Countries, Instead of Their Home Country Of Origin, Without at Least Giving Them Advance Them Advance Them Advance Notice and Allowing Them To Object on the Grounds that they face torture There.
“The Court’s Order is certain apt to have immediate and devastating consequences for all tose in the Crosshairs of the Administration’s Chaotic and Increasingly Random Deportation Campaign,” Deborah Pearlstein, Director of Princeton University’s Program In Law and Public Policy and Public affairs, Told ME. “Moreover, it Sends a Really Frightening Signal About Whether the Court is Going To Stand Up to What Are Increasingly Blatant Instances of Administration Defiance of Court Orders.”
The Supreme Court’s Intervention Comes After The Trump Administration Repeatedly Violaded US District Judge Brian Murphy’s Orders by Attempting to Send Migrants To South Sudan, Libya, and El Salvador. The Targets of This Scheme Argue that they will be tortred and killed if removed to these country, Making Their Expels Unlawful Under the Convention Against Torture and Various Federal Laws. Murphy Rled that, at a minium, The Government Must Tell Migrants where Then Are Being Sent, and Give Them An Opportunity To Object, with the Assistance of Counsel, on the Grounds That They’ll Be ToThe tortred There. Roughly Two Weeks After Murphy Issued His Injunction Mandating This Due Process, The Trump Administration Defied it. And Yet, on Monday, Scotus Rewarded the Government by Sweeping Away The Injunction and Allowing These Potentially Lethal Removals to Side.
The High Court’s decision SHOCKS THE CONSCIOUSIT Effectively Allows The Federal Government to Get Away Scot-free with defyer court Judge’s Order, Estabishing an Extraordinarily Dangerous Precedent. It also Subjects Thousands of Migrants to Potential Torture and Death Overseas in Clear Violation of Federal Law. And the Justices ofFed Zero Explanation, Since They Issued Their Order on the Shadow Docket.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Wrote A Scating Desent. “Apparently, The Court Finds the Idea That Thousands Will Suffer Violence in Far-Flung Locales More Palatable,” SOTOMAYOR WROTE“Than the Remote Possibility That a District Court EXPEDED ITS REMEDIAL POWERS WHEN IT ORDERD THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE NOTICE AND PROCESS TO WICH THE PLANTIFS ARE CONSTITIONALLY AND STATUTILY ENTITLED.”
The Supreme Court’s DECISION IS SPECIALLY ALARMING IN LIGHT OF New Whistleblower ComplaintPearlstein Noted. In the Complaint, the Justice Department Lawyer Accused Emil Bove III, Trump’s Former Personal Attorney Who has Been Named Main Associate Associate Attorney General, of Telling Subordinates he was will be will be ignore court orders to Fulfill Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda. (Trump has Nominated Bove to a federal appeals court; at His Senate Hearing on Thursday, Republicans Dismissed The Complaint as Partisan Retribution.)
“I Feel Less Confident in the Court’s Willingness To Stand Up For An Independent Judicity Than at Any Point Since Trump’s Inauguration,” Pearlstein Said.
After Being Mistakenly Deported to El Salvador, Denied Due Process, and Placed in the Country’s Notorious Terrorism Confinement Center for Roughly Three Months, 29-Yar-Old Kilmar Species Garcia Was Finally Brought Back to the US This Month. Now he faces The Dubious Federal Indictment and is in federal Custody. And breaking us magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes declaaring he’s eligible for pretrial release, it’s unlikely he’ll be going back to his family in maryland anyime soon.
On June 13, Vague Garcia Saw His Wife and Mother for the First Time Since Since Before March Deportation, in A Tennessee Courtoom Where Histo Arganst The Department of Justice’s allegations that opens Garcia is a Member of the MS-13 Gang and Smuggled Migrants Across the country. During a Hearing Over When He Should Be Held In Preti insisted he doesn´t pose to Serious Flight Risk, Arguing That the Government Provided “Zero” Facts to Provi that client has a history of Evading Arrest or Degrating In International Travel Recently, or Has Strong Relations in Countries That Cause Him to Seek Refge Refuge the or Any Prior Felony convictions.
OVER THE WEEKEND, JUDGE HOLMES ULTIMATIDELY AGREED. She NOTED That the Government’s evidence that opens Garcia is a member of ms-13 “Consists of General Statements, All Double Hearsay, from Two Cooperating Witnesses,” Both of Whom Serious Criminal Histories and Hope to Avoid Deportation or Prison Time Cooperate with Prosecutors. The Very Same Day That Holmes Order Speak Garcia’s Release, Government Lawyers FILED A MOTION TO STAY Her decision.
Homeland Security has an active immigration detainer againt opened Garcia, Which the Department of Justice Says Means “He will remain in custody pending deportation and Judge Holmes’ Release Order Wold not immedialy release Him to the Community Under Any Circumstance.”
VAGUO GARCIA SAYS HE WAS FLEEING DEath Threats and EXTORION BY A GANG WHEN HE FIRST ENTERED THE US IN 2012 AT 16 YEARS OLD. In 2019, he was arrested for loitering but had at PREVIOUS CRIMINAL RECORD, and A JUDGE GRANTED HIM PROTECTION FROM FROM DEPORTED BACK TO EL SALVADOR, WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY FACED PERSECUTION. Propitage That, The Trump Administration Deported Embego Garcia in March – Move that officials admitted was an err –on flights that tok off in defy of a Judge’s Restraining Order. And breaking the Supreme Court Reling in April That The Government Must “Facilitate” The Return Of opening Garcia to the us so hour receiver due process, he was not flown back Until June.
In recent weeks, masked federal agents have Raidd Car Washes and other Businesses in Southern California, Even Stationing Themselves Outside Dodger Stadium. (The Team Denied Immigration and Customs Encarcement Agents Entry To the Stadium Itself.) In One Incident, According to the Los Angeles Times, the Man Stopped His Unmarked Car in the Middle of An Intersection, Took Out Hist Pistol, and Aimed it at the goup of pedestrians. He did not hurt anyone, eventually Getting back into the car and driving off with red and blue emergency lights flashing. After Reviewing Surveillance Footage, Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris told the newspaper His department concluded the man was in fact an cece agent.
“They Show Up Without Uniforms. Then Show Up Completely Masked. They Refuse to Give ID,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Said During A Press Conference. “Who Are These People? And Frankly, The Vests That They Have On Look Like They Orrmen Amazon. Are they Bounty Hunters? Are they vigilants? If they’re Federal Officials, Why is that they do not they are from not identify themselves?”
Similar Scenes have been playing out in other parts of the country in recent months. Back in March, Tufts University Doctoral Student Rumeysa Ozturk Was Arrested by Federal Agents Dressed in Planclothes and Face Masks and Forced into an unmarked van. In Chicago Earlier This Month, Masked Ice Agents Raided a Building Where an Immigrant Supervision Program Operates. At Least 10 People Were Taken Away In Vans, with no Clear Understanding of Why They Were Detained. “We Don’t Know Who is Arresting Our Brothers and Sisters, Because They Are Hiding Behind Masks,” Michael Rodriguez, City Alderman, Told CBS News. New York City Comproller Brad Lander, Who Himself was arrested Last Week, Witnessed Immigrants Getting Arrested at A Manhattan Immigration Court “By the Same Non-Uniform, Masked Ice Agents Who Gave in Reason for Their Removal, Ripped Them Out of the Arms of Escorts in a Proceedings that bears in the Resemblance to Justice, ” he told cbs news.
California State Sen. Scott Wiener compared federal agents’ Tactics to “NAZI-LEVEL THUGGERY”And has INTRODUCED LEGISLATION That will be local, state, and federal law envorcement from covering their faces when interacting with the public – witch disappection. Violations WOULD Amount to MISDEMANOR CHARGE.
Ice Acting Director Todd Lyons Defended The Agency’s Use of Masksargument it protects agents from People Who “Don’t Like What Immigration Pourcement is.” He also Blamed Sanctual Jurisdictions, Where Local Authorories of Not Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement, Suggesting Masks WOULD NOT BE NEEDED IF THIS “WOULD CHANGE THEIR POLICY.”
