The Trump Administration and the Immigration Process: A Case Study for a Politically Informed and Ordered Deportation of 238 Migrants to El Salvador

The Justice Department agreed to obey a judge’s order after the judge issued emergency orders blocking the Trump administration.

Over the last few days, the court has had to deal with a battle with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement that has the potential to cause a constitutional crisis.

Over the weekend, the Trump administration sent three planes carrying 238 migrants from Venezuela to El Salvador, even as Judge Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations and to turn the planes around. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president the power to deport citizens and subjects of any foreign country that is at war with the US, and that is what happened after Mr. Trump signed the executive order. The deportations were justified because Mr. Trump claimed that the migrants were part of a gang in Venezuela that was engaged in “erratic warfare” against the United States.

Gelernt also questioned whether the hundreds of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador were in fact members of Tren de Aragua or other gangs, as the Trump administration has alleged.

Government lawyers on Sunday wrote that “some gang members subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory” by the time the judge issued his written order at 7:26 p.m. ET on Saturday.

On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were “questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a legal order as a written order, and our lawyers are determined to ask and answer those questions in court. Two flights carrying deportees were still in the air by the time the judge’s order was written, according to data cited by the plaintiffs. The written order was released and there was a third plane that took off.

“Plaintiffs remain extremely concerned that, regardless of which time is used, the government may have violated the Court’s command,” the groups wrote in a filing on Monday. They said that once the planes landed, the U.S. government kept control of people until they were turned over to El Salvadorans.

When did the President of the United States Open the Doors to Foreign Intelligence and Security? The Justice Department’s Correspondence to the President on Twitter

The judge is well known for his years of service on the Foreign Intelligence surveille Court, which reviews all federal government applications to conduct foreign spy in the United States. He has long ties with conservatives and liberals alike, having shared a house with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at Yale Law School.

A judge in DC wants to know more about flights that deported hundreds of alleged gang members, despite his order to turn the planes around.

The federal district court judges who are presiding over the lawsuits trying to block the Trump administration’s actions have had many contretemps with the administration.

John Roberts, the chief justice of the supreme court, issued a statement following the president’s post on social media saying that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreements concerning a judicial decision. Appellate review process is for that purpose.

At the hearing on Monday, lawyers for the Justice Department did not answer questions from the judge about when the flights took off, and who was on the planes.

The Justice Department’s lawyers wrote a defiant note, saying that he had no justification to try and find out more about deportation flights that left the US before his order.

The Trump administration, however, may be on shaky ground in this case because, according to legal scholars, the Alien Enemies Act was meant to and is written to deal with wartime emergencies only. In addition, even people who should be deported are guaranteed due process under the Constitution, and it is not clear that all the people being deported have had a final hearing. The president picked this fight because of his previous work on immigration, and it’s probably because it’s provocative.

Most prominently, last Friday Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport several hundred alleged Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela — as well as alleged members of the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 — by claiming they were part of an illegal invasion. Three times in American history the statute has been invoked: The War of 1812, World War I and World War II.

“Congress made it very clear that it can only be used against a foreign government or foreign nation, and that is exactly what it did.” It has never in our country’s history been used during peacetime, much less against a gang,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney on the case, in an interview with NPR.

In a court filing Monday night, the Trump administration said it has good reason to believe that the men deported over the weekend are gang members.

“Agency personnel carefully vetted each individual alien to ensure they were in fact members of [Tren de Arugua,]” Cerna said in a declaration. “ICE did not simply rely on social media posts, photographs of the alien displaying gang-related hand gestures, or tattoos alone.”

Cerna also conceded that “many” of those Venezuelan men who are now being held in a supermax prison in El Salvador do not have criminal records in the U.S. “They have only been in the United States for a brief time, so that’s why,” she said.

According to the declaration, the lack of a criminal record isn’t a sign that they are a limited threat. The lack of specific information about each individual highlights the risks they pose. It shows that they are terrorists with regard to whom we don’t have a complete profile.

The 127-Year New York Lawsuits Against the White House: Cases against the President’s National Security Powers and the Hitting of Some Federal Employees

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led the federal government’s investigation into Trump, had his security clearances revoked by Trump. The federal government’s existing contracts were terminated by Trump.

The administration’s efforts to make life more difficult for lawyers who bring cases against the administration is at the center of these cases.

The database maintained by New York University shows that there have been 127 lawsuits filed against the administration since Trump took office. The cases challenge an enormous range of subjects — from the president’s national security powers to the firing of tens of thousands of federal employees at the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, and agencies created by Congress that are supposed to be independent.

Other challenges seek to prevent the administration from gutting agencies and Cabinet departments by summarily firing tens of thousands of federal employees.

Musk, hired by the president as a special government employee, may not take actions that Congress has denied authorization for, such as ending funding to federal agencies, according to many cases involving his Department of Government Efficiency. The IRS and the Social Security Administration have had issues with access to federal records, which have been cast doubt on the ability of DOGE to do so.

The administration has also made an effort, so far unsuccessful, to ban automatic citizenship for some people born in the United States. This is a right pretty explicitly guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution for all people born or naturalized in the U.S.

Trump also ordered the detention and deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil for his role in the school’s student-led protests last spring. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident in the United States who is of Palestinian descent. After Khalil was taken into custody, immigration officials decided to deport a doctor from the U.S. to Lebanon because of her alleged support for Hezbollah.

Trump signed a similar executive order limiting federal contractors’ and the government’s ability to retain Paul Weiss, a major New York law firm, citing the firm’s connection to one of its former lawyers who was involved in leading an investigation into Trump.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has targeted 20 major law firms, including Perkins Coie, in an investigation into their DEI practices, though this investigation has not yet been challenged in court.

Source: Trump calls for the impeachment of a judge, as lawsuits pile up

How the Associated Press was unable to Obtain Access to the Oval Office or Air Force One Under President Donald Trump’s Decline on “The Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America”

The Associated Press was forbidden from accessing the Oval Office or Air Force One because of its style guide not complying with Trump’s order to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. The AP sued the administration to get access after they released a statement saying the Trump administration would punish them for their journalism.