Post AtFZlMbFqWpAydi2Ua by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AtFZlDC6oeMXo2sKY4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T09:48:44Z
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#SCOTUS, for Now, Blocks #Deportations of #Venezuelan ImmigrantsJustices #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.#AlienEnemiesAct #immigration #judiciary
(DIR) Post #AtFZlEabd3YI8JLPN2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:00:24Z
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#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.#immigration
(DIR) Post #AtFZlFj9Olytf6LkKO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:03:10Z
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More than 50 #Venezuelans were scheduled to be flown out of the country — presumably to #ElSalvador — from an #immigration detention center in Anson, Texas. The #ACLU in recent days had already secured court orders barring similar deportations under the #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct, in other places including New York, Denver & Brownsville, Texas.The situation in Anson was urgent enough that ACLU lawyers mounted challenges in 3 different courts within 5 hours on Friday.#SCOTUS
(DIR) Post #AtFZlGbO97MmNJj3rs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:07:41Z
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#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.#law #Trump
(DIR) Post #AtFZlHSuw6BV3KloIq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:09:25Z
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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.”#law #Trump #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct
(DIR) Post #AtFZlITJC85kApxdYG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:13:42Z
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The efforts by groups like the #ACLU to stop #deportations under the #AlienEnemiesAct were complicated this month by a #SCOTUS ruling that found that anyone subject to the statute needed to be given the opportunity to challenge their removal, but only in the places where they were being detained.The decision by the justices set off a hunt for anyone who might fall under the authority of #Trump’s proclamation.#law #immigration
(DIR) Post #AtFZlJGaEvVUdf0zM8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:15:21Z
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The #ACLU, hoping to come up with a system for determining where those people might be, has asked a federal judge in Washington to issue a nationwide order forcing the govt to provide 30 days’ notice to anyone in the country before officials seek to remove them under the #AlienEnemiesAct.#law #Trump #immigration
(DIR) Post #AtFZlJrS1qzuU0GQoy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:15:52Z
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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.#law #Trump #immigration
(DIR) Post #AtFZlKicq9X38v8thg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:17:39Z
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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.#law
(DIR) Post #AtFZlLY1l2eHiLBwp6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:20:35Z
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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.#law #Trump #immigration #AEA
(DIR) Post #AtFZlMbFqWpAydi2Ua by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:22:20Z
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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.”#law #Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #AEA
(DIR) Post #AtFZlNci2baA9ROiOm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:23:45Z
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Among those at the Bluebonnet detention center that the #ACLU is seeking to protect from #deportation is a 19-year-old known as Y.S.M.Y.S.M., court papers say, was arrested by #immigration agents on March 14 & was sent to the Bluebonnet facility this week. When the agents initially questioned him, court papers say, they told him that a photograph on Facebook showing him in the presence of another person holding a gun proved he was a member of Tren de Aragua.#law #Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #AEA
(DIR) Post #AtFZlOfEAjBtNXaExk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-19T10:25:20Z
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But according to his lawyer, Y.S.M. informed the agents that what they believed to be a gun was actually a water pistol.A spox for the president of #ElSalvador, Wendy Ramos, did not respond to a request for confirmation of an upcoming flight.Since March 15, the #Trump admin has sent 5 flights carrying deportees to El Salvador under a deal with its president, Nayib #Bukele, to hold detainees deemed by US authorities to be part of criminal gangs in his country’s prison system, for a fee.#law
(DIR) Post #AtFZlPIZoQfNLZzfIO by dbc3@mastodon.world
2025-04-19T13:29:27Z
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@Nonilex Thank you for this. I hope you manage some sleep dome day!While it technically applies only to the ones at Bluebonnet who were being loaded on to buses despite the govt lawyer saying in court yesyerday there were no flights planned today, it looks like the seven justices told Alito & Thomas to fuck off with their "must show due deference to the executive" horseshit. Regsrdless of this order's limitations it shows the majority is ready to join the battle. Csutious optimism.