The ruling is NOT against the concept of deporting people….
It IS against sending them to place they have never been to before without proper notice….
That the US Government should take the time to send people back to where they came from….
This issue HAS been before the Supreme’s who have sent it back down to lower level Federal judges to adjudicate …
This case is probably gonna to bounce around the Federal Court’s again…
A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday found that the Trump administration’s policy of summarily deporting immigrants to so-called third countries — nations other than their countries of origin — is unlawful.
In an 81-page ruling, Judge Brian E. Murphy of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts wrote that the government must first try to deport detained immigrants to their home countries — or to countries designated by an immigration judge when the immigrants were ordered removed from the country. After that process, immigration detainees must be given “meaningful notice” before being deported to another country, to allow them the opportunity to raise any fears they have that they might be persecuted or tortured there.
Judge Murphy, who was appointed to the bench by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., paused his own order for 15 days, which gives the government time to seek an appeal.
Still, the ruling amounts to a sweeping repudiation of one of the administration’s most aggressive deportation policies, one in which immigrants are flown to distant places to which they have no ties, including Eswatini, Rwanda and Ghana. A report released earlier this month by Senate Democrats claimed that the administration had spent more than $32 million in taxpayer funds to persuade third countries to accept roughly 300 deportees.
Deportations to third countries have been a high-profile component of the administration’s broader effort to depict migrants as “barbaric” criminals who should be dealt with harshly — and to persuade migrants to self-deport and leave the country voluntarily. Immigrants have also been sent to El Salvador and South Sudan, two countries with documented human rights violations. The administration has discussed sending them to Libya as well, The New York Times has reported.
“This is a forceful statement from the court that the administration has been violating the law,” said Trina Realmuto, a lawyer for the migrants in the case.
In an emailed statement, Natalie Baldassarre, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said that “the district court continues to ignore clear law.”
The ruling does not apply to migrants whom the government is seeking to deport using “expedited removal” authorities, which allow the quick removal of migrants who cannot prove, upon arrest, that they have been in the United States for longer than two years.
The case has already reached the Supreme Court once, when eight deportees with criminal records were held for days on a U.S. military base in Djibouti after Judge Murphy ordered that they remain in U.S. custody. The Trump administration filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court, which then allowed the men to be handed over to the government of South Sudan. The Supreme Court cited an earlier ruling that paused an order from Judge Murphy that required the government to give detainees the opportunity to object to their removal and raise fears of persecution or torture.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in July amounted to temporary guidance while the case continued to be litigated. The justices have not yet offered a final judgment as to whether they believe the policy is legal…..
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