A day after a federal appeals court affirmed a court order directing the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a deported 20-year-old Venezuelan man to the United States, the judge overseeing the case has ordered the administration to report “the steps they have taken” to do so.
The man, identified in court records by the pseudonym “Cristian,” challenged his removal after he was sent in mid-March on a flight to El Salvador after Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a “hybrid criminal state” that is invading the United States.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee, found in April that Cristian’s removal violated a class action settlement on behalf of individuals who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors then later sought asylum, and she directed the government to take steps toward “aiding, assisting or making easier” Cristian’s release and return – similar to the remedy ordered by the judge in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Demand to know who ‘arrested’ and transported the victim illegally. Agents, drivers, admins, pilots.
Contempt of court until that person is back on US soil. Bailiff, take 'em away.
So punish the little guys instead of Trump? What?
If an order is illegal it’s your duty not to follow it.
It’s really easy to say things like this in the comfort of your home.
I don’t expect anyone to choose removing bread from their family’s table to “do the right thing”, punishing people at the bottom playing into the oligarchs game of divide and conquer.
You don’t shoot the hostage to kill the kidnapper.
Those are ICE agents, they already self select as the worst people, and you can always find a job as a private security guard it municipal cop or whatever if you have moral qualms about what you’re doing.
The little guys carry out the orders. Cut enough tentacles off the octopus and you stop it even if the head’s still intact.