A federal judge in Washington plans to hold the Trump administration at hearing Monday about whether he violated an order that barred the exclusion of detained non-citizens, including detained non-citizens, including detained non-citizens.
The hearing was scheduled by judge James E. Boasberg, even if President Trump's so-called border emperor Tom Homan made rebellious remarks on television.
“We're not stopped,” Homan said Monday that he was appearing on Fox News. “I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're here.”
Homan defended the administration's decision to fly more than 200 migrants to El Salvador over the weekend, including individuals identified by the government as members of Tren Aragua's crime gang. He added that the public should expect more deportation flights “everyday.”
The legal battle for the removal of immigrants was the latest and perhaps the most serious flashpoint between federal courts seeking to curb many of Trump's recent enforcement actions and federal courts that have repeatedly tried to curb an administration that has repeatedly approached refusing to comply with judicial orders.
Trump himself expressed skepticism about the verdict last week after a federal judge in California ordered the administration to rehire thousands of probational workers. Trump told reporters Sunday night that the judge “has placed himself in the position of US president elected with nearly 80 million votes.”
The hearing in the deported immigration case was scheduled for 5pm Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington. Judge Boasberg said Justice Department lawyers should be prepared to tell him where a flight to El Salvador is on the US ground, in the air or already abroad when he hands out the order.
In issuing a temporary restraining order for the removal this weekend, Judge Boasberg said the plane carrying Venezuelan immigrants “but that's been achieved whether they travel or not.”
The White House denied that Judge Boasberg violated the order, claiming that the deportation service had left the US soil before filing the written order.
In a court filing early Monday, some deported Venezuelan lawyers said the White House dismissed the publication of the oral version of the same decision around 6:45pm, claiming that Judge Boasberg's order was published in the form written on Saturday at 7:26pm.
“There are questions about whether oral orders have the same weight as written orders,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Monday.
Trump administration officials also suggest that Judge Boasberg's order will not apply to planes that have already crossed international waters when the written decision is taken.
“Whether the plane cleaned up US territory or not, they wrote, “The United States retained custody, at least until the plane landed and the individual was handed over to a foreign government,” they wrote.
Levitt told reporters Monday that more than 260 immigrants were removed through the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, including 137 people removed through the obscure wartime law, which the administration allegedly used by the administration to immediately expel those identified as members of the cross-sectional Tren de Aragua gang. Another 101 were Venezuelans who were deported under normal immigration procedures. Levitt said another 23 people were members of Salvador's gang Mala Salvattorcha (MS-13).
The US is hiring retirees to pay $6 million in El Salvador, Leavitt told reporters.
Leavitt said Monday that the DECORTEES group is responsible for a variety of violent crimes, including murder and sexual abuse, but the administration has not released extensive details about each Deportee and has not provided evidence of their gang affiliation. Levitt made no promise to release the names of each and every one of them who was deported through alien enemy laws.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have accused the Trump administration of “another illegal and brave grab for power” in the progress of the deportation.
“We cannot allow Trump to underestimate rules and legitimate procedures,” Senate Democrats said in a statement Monday. “We all, including the courts, must continue to hold this administration accountable and prevent the Trump administration from stealing us on dark and dangerous roads.”
The deportation to El Salvador was an example of administrative action that contradicted the position of the judicial department.
Over the weekend, a federal judge in Boston said he had reason to believe the Trump administration intentionally opposed the order to provide court notice before banishing a doctor who was detained for 36 hours in Boston when he returned after visiting a Lebanese relative, even though he had a valid visa.
Despite the judge temporarily issued an order that prevented her from removing her, federal authorities flew Dr. Lasha Alawier, 34, a professor at Brown University, to Paris, probably on her way to Lebanon.
The Trump administration faces charges in at least three other cases, which include failing to fully comply with the judge's orders or dismissing them for violating them.
In such cases, lawyers for the group of nonprofits accused the State Department of failing to comply with a court order that directed the International Development Agency to pay them all the money they pay.
In two other cases, lawyers for health professionals in Seattle and Maryland accused the Department of Health and Human Services of failing to comply with separate court orders that are responsible for withholding federal funds from healthcare providers that provide gender-affirming care.
