Judge Chen said #KristiNoem's actions appear to have been predicated on "negative stereotypes" by insinuating the migrants were criminals. "Generalization of criminality to the #Venezuelan #TPS population as a whole is baseless & smacks of #racism predicated on generalized false #stereotypes," Chen wrote, adding that Venezuelan TPS holders were more likely to hold bachelor's degrees than American citizens & less likely to commit crimes than the general US population. 
The #Trump admin today, May 1, asked #SCOTUS to allow it to strip temporary protected status [#TPS] from >300,000 #Venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their #deportation. The #DOJ asked the justices to put on hold US District Judge Edward Chen's order that halted #DHS Secy #KristiNoem's decision to terminate the temporary #legal status that previously was granted to some #Venezuelans by President Joe #Biden's admin.
The case of V.M.L.…is the latest challenge to the legality of several aspects of #Trump’s aggressive #deportation efforts.
The admin has already been blocked by 6 federal judges in courts across the country from removing #Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to #ElSalvador under a rarely invoked wartime statute. It has also created an uproar by wrongfully deporting a Maryland man, #KilmarAbregoGarcia, to El Salvador &…refusing to work to bring him back.
#law #immigration #DueProcess
Exclusive:
#Trump's admin moved a #Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible #deportation after a federal judge had issued an order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania or the #UnitedStates, according to court records.
#law #immigration #Constitution #judiciary #JudicialBranch #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-moved-venezuelan-texas-possible-deportation-despite-judges-2025-04-24/
An Immigrant Held in #US Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
The #Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in #ElSalvador, & his family & friends had no idea of his whereabouts.
#law #immigration #Trump #RicardoPradaVásquez #WhiteSupremacy #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B08.IFW7.E0ozyGyhHps0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
‘#Trump says he is 'entitled' to deport people without trials
Following an emergency order from the supreme court on Saturday blocking his administration from deporting suspected #Venezuelan gang members without affording them due process, Donald Trump just told reporters that it is not possible to have trials for all of the people he wants to deport.’
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I guess when your boss is Putin, how do you snow you’re making progress in your ‘dictatorship studies’?
Judge Charlotte Sweeney said during a court hearing in Denver that notices of looming #deportations given to #Venezuelan immigrants held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas made no mention of #HabeasCorpus, which refers to the right of detainees to challenge the legality of their detention.
A US judge expressed skepticism Monday that the notice the #Trump admin pledged to give #Venezuelan immigrants before deporting them under the #AlienEnemiesAct complied w/ #SCOTUS’ ruling that they be given a chance to challenge their removals in court.
#law #immigration
https://www.reuters.com/legal/venezuelan-migrants-seek-further-deportation-protections-after-supreme-court-2025-04-21/
#SCOTUS’ unsigned, one-paragraph order came after a fast-moving legal battle late Friday. The #ACLU had rushed to several lower courts, then to the Supreme Court, claiming that the #Trump admin was planning to deport more #Venezuelan migrants, presumably to #ElSalvador, with little to no #DueProcess under the wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The Supreme Court’s decision ordered a pause on the #deportations of the detainees while it considers the emergency application.
But then on Friday, other #Venezuelan immigrants at the detention center were informed that they were facing imminent #deportation, court papers say. One of them, known as F.G.M., was instructed to sign a removal waiver in English, even though he speaks only Spanish.
When he refused to sign, #immigration officers told him the waiver was “coming from the president,” according to court papers, “and that he will be deported even if he did not sign it.”
This latest iteration of the fight over the use of the #AlienEnemiesAct began on Wednesday when the #ACLU filed suit in Abilene on behalf of 2 #Venezuelan immigrants being held at the Bluebonnet facility, asking Judge Hendrix to shield them against #deportation. But the judge denied the request, largely because lawyers for the #DOJ told him that the men — known only by their initials, A.A.R.P. & W.M.M. — had not yet been scheduled for removal from the country.
Drew C. Ensign, a lawyer for the #DOJ, gave his word that no flights were scheduled to depart from the Bluebonnet center on Friday night or Saturday morning, adding that the immigrants there would be given at least 24 hrs’ notice before they were deported.
But Judge #Boasberg was skeptical of Ensign’s assertion, pointing out that the notice forms the #Trump admin had given to the #Venezuelan men did not contain an explicit statement that they were able to challenge their #deportations.
During a hearing on Friday evening in front of the judge in Washington, James #Boasberg, #LeeGelernt, a lawyer for the ACLU, said that he was prepared to file what amounted to pre-emptive lawsuits in all of the >90 federal judicial districts across the country in an effort to ensure that no #Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings under the #AlienEnemiesAct.
When Judge Hendrix did not grant their request quickly — & later rejected it entirely — the #ACLU lawyers filed a similar request to the US Court of Appeals for the #FifthCircuit in New Orleans.
The lawyers then filed an emergency petition to #SCOTUS, asking the justices to step in & issue an immediate pause on any #deportations because many of the #Venezuelan men had “already been loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport.”
#ACLU attys started w/an emergency filing in Federal Dist Court in Abilene, #Texas, in which they claimed that officers at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson had started distributing notices to #Venezuelan immigrants informing them that they could face #deportation as soon as Fri night.
They asked Judge Hendrix, who is overseeing the case, to issue an immediate order protecting all immigrants in the Northern District of TX who might face deportation under the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#SCOTUS temporarily blocked the #Trump admin early Saturday from deporting another group of #Venezuelan immigrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.
A federal appeals court in Washington put off for the moment a plan by Judge #Boasberg to open #contempt proceedings to determine whether the #Trump admin violated an order he issued last month stopping flights of #Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to #ElSalvador. The United States Court of Appeals for DC said it was entering what is known as an administrative stay to have more time to consider the validity of Judge Boasberg’s proposal.
#SCOTUS, for Now, Blocks #Deportations of #Venezuelan Immigrants
Justices #ClarenceThomas & Samuel #Alito dissented.
Lawyers for the #ACLU, saying that a new group of Venezuelan men had been “loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport,” filed an emergency petition to SCOTUS, asking the justices to step in & issue an immediate pause on any deportations under a wartime powers #law the #Trump admin has been using to try to expel them.
[08:37] US court orders pause on Venezuelan deportations
The US Supreme Court has paused the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their lawyers claimed they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0419/1508452-us-migration/
#TheUSSupremeCourt #Trump #Venezuelan
Michigan native #ErikPrince proposes #deportation plan to #ElSalvador, report says
By Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025
"Erik Prince, the former CEO of #Blackwater USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting #immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported.
"The pitch would attempt to avoid #legal challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as #AmericanTerritory, the report stated.
" 'It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago,' the Politico report stated. 'But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.'
"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host #NayibBukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14.
"Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 #Venezuelan immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so.
"Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration.
"Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir #Putin in the #Seychelles, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide #StephenBannon.
"Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed #Iraqi #civilians in Baghdad’s #NisourSquare during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas.
"In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."
#ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #TripleCanopy #PrivateArmy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas #Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism
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