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As an example:

~ Deportation of Ohio's Haitians could spark economic turmoil ~

#USA #immigration #deportations #trump
#Ohio #Haitians

https://theweek.com/politics/haiti-deportations-ohio-springfield

~ “They entered their cold cells, 80 men per cell, w/ steel planks for bunks, no mats, no sheets, no pillow. No television. No books. No talking. No phone calls & no visitors… It was exile to another world, a place so cold and far from home they may as well have been sent into space, nameless and forgotten… it was as if I watched them become ghosts.”

/6 of 6

~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“After being shaved, the detainees were stripped naked. More of them began to whimper; the hard faces I saw on the plane had evaporated. It was like looking at men who passed through a time machine. In two hours, they aged 10 years. Their nice clothes were not gathered or catalogued but simply thrust into black garbage bags to be thrown out with their hair.”

/5 of 6

~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste. The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He was slapped. The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.”

/4 of 6

~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“The men were pulled from the buses so fast the guards couldn’t keep pace. Chained at their ankles and wrists, they stumbled and fell, some guards falling to the ground with them. With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward.“

/3 of 6

~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”

/2 of 6

~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

#DOJ is back up briefly for a hypothetical presented by Boasberg about whether the #AlienEnemiesAct could apply to Chinese fishermen under their interpretation of the #AEA. They agreed it could.

Court is adjourned for the day.

#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

#Boasberg says he is also concerned that those targeted were not working for foreign governments, but adds that the question of his ability to review the proclamation itself is unclear.

"There's still a lot of language in #SCOTUS cases that gives me pause"

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

#Boasberg interjects to say that a big question here is about TdA membership, determining who is covered by the #AEA.

Boasberg to #ACLU: I agree that the policy implications of this are incredibly troubling, problematic, concerning....it's an unprecedented & expanded use of the Act

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

#ACLU: "It can't just be you're put on a plane in 2hrs"

ACLU says that unless there's a review process, "anyone could be taken off the street." He adds that the plaintiffs see another question: whether the proclamation itself is reviewable by the courts; he says it is.

ACLU: "This is a very dangerous road we're going down where the #AlienEnemiesAct can be invoked against a gang" [not a foreign nation or government]

#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

Plaintiffs turn

#ACLU says they're not seeking to stop the govt from deporting people in normal course, under the #Immigration & Nationality Act, & argue that challenging the proclamation wouldn't work via individualized #HabeasCorpus cases.

#Boasberg asks what the plaintiffs think they have to do to show that they're not members of TdA.

ACLU says that during the WWI invocation, there weren't removals. And even during the WWII removals, the govt "set up a hearing board" to review cases.

#DOJ argues that, hypothetically, people subject to #AlienEnemiesAc could contest that via a habeas claim. But says that the current suit (a class action) shouldn't be allowed (not brought by individual)

#Boasberg asks about #torture claims: Why can't the plaintiffs bring that related to the #AEA removals?

DOJ says that such a claim needs to be brought as part of a #HabeasCorpus petition.

[again, not easy to do from #CECOT)

#law #Constitution #immigration #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

#Boasberg reminds the #DOJ that #Congress created a court for exactly this -- the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. It has never been used.

FYI: Boasberg was Chief Judge of The Alien Terrorist Removal Court 2020–2025 →

https://www.fjc.gov/history/courts/alien-terrorist-removal-court-judges

Boasberg asks about #DueProcess rights to aliens within the #US

DOJ argues their rights are "quite limited"

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

#Boasberg: let's talk about whether #HabeasCorpus is the sole avenue of review

[hopefully we will soon hear about #judiciary #power & the #Trump admin’s defiance of the courts]

#DOJ keeps trying to argue that the challenge in this case would strip the govt, somehow, of its authority to detain people.

[not if they do it without breaking the law]

Boasberg, incredulous: this is about removal, isnt it? [not detention]

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Judiciary

#DOJ returns to the idea that individual people can raise challenges under #HabeasCorpus.

[not exactly an option for people who are already in an El Salvadorian terrorist detention center!]

#Boasberg compares this to the old #Guantanamo cases, in which the courts were able to review whether a detainee was a member of Al Qaeda even if "they had never even set foot in the United States"

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower