Obama Judge Boasberg Now Demands That Trump Pick Up 100 Deported Aliens from Venezuela and Bring Them Back

He's doing what superior courts have repeatedly told him he does not have the power to do: ordering the president around like a house boy.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump must return more than 100 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act last spring.

"The Court will now order the Government to facilitate the return from third countries of those Plaintiffs who so desire," Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in court filings. "It will also permit other

Boasberg's ruling stems from a separate December decision that found probable cause that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of more than 100 Venezuelans illegally in the country, whom the administration targeted as being suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua transnational cartel.

The deportees were initially sent to the El Salvadoran prison facility known as CECOT, before they were later transferred back to Venezuela in a prisoner swap.

The Trump administration has already said it would appeal any decision granting the return or access to legal remedies of the deported Venezuelan group, arguing in part that the situation in Venezuela has changed dramatically since the Jan. 3 operation to capture and arrest the country's former dictator, Nicolas Maduro.

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The development marks a critical blow to the Trump administration's efforts to deport 137 Venezuelan men who were flown last year to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center without advance notice or court hearings.

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In better news, via Intercepted Reddit Transmissions, "voluntary" departures -- "self-deportations" as the liberal Mitt Romney called them -- are at an all-time record high.

And CBS "News" thinks this is just turrible! Turrible!

Voluntary departures hit record high as detained immigrants lose hope of getting released or winning in court

As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country.

Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found.

That figure only appears to be climbing as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown widens and detention populations swell. The percentage of voluntary departures among those detained grew nearly every month of 2025, reaching 38% in December. The analysis does not include those who were not given a hearing before an immigration judge, such as immigrants in expedited removal proceedings.

"It's set up for every individual who is detained to get to the point where they're just emotionally drained and exhausted through it all of the way that we're being treated, to just say, 'OK, all I want is my freedom,'" said Vilma Palacios, who agreed to return to Honduras in late December after being detained for six months in Basile, Louisiana.

Oh no! No!

Does the fact that American citizens are drained and exhausted over our officials refusing to enforce the law for fifty f***in' years count? Or just the exhaustion of the precious illegal aliens?

Palacios, 22, had been in the U.S. since she was 6 years old. Last June, a month after she graduated from nursing school at Louisiana State University, ICE agents arrested her at a local police station after she brought in a car for a routine inspection. She has no criminal record.

Palacios said she and her family were apprehended and detained for a month at the border when they arrived in 2010 but were released and pursued an asylum case in the years following. Court records show her case was administratively closed in 2015, when she was 12 years old, meaning it was taken off the docket indefinitely.

In other words, her final appeal for asylum was rejected.

This is one of those cases where liberals whine that they want "due process."

She had her due process. She had ten years of due process. The final ruling in this expensive ten year long exercise in due process is that her asylum claim is bogus and she is under a final order of deportation.

The right to due process is the right to an orderly hearing before impartial judges or magistrates. It is not, as the left has perverted the term, a guarantee on the left's preferred outcome.

In a statement to CBS News, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson wrote that Palacios "freely admitted to being in the U.S. illegally" and "never sought or gained any legal status."

Palacios pushed back on claims that she never sought legal status, saying she had been awaiting a work permit renewal when she was arrested.

Since then, Palacios says she had an immigration attorney helping her navigate the immigration court proceeding process and thought she was doing everything necessary to remain in the U.S. lawfully. She says she was shocked when immigration agents detained her.

She said her subsequent six-month stay in detention -- during which she had no contact with family or friends -- was emotionally exhausting.

"Everything was taken from me, like being ripped apart from every person that I loved, and being surrounded with people that I had never met in my life, and [ICE] having control over every movement that I made, was just something very difficult to me," she said. "It got to the point where I didn't see that I had no other option but just to say, OK, just please give me my freedom back."

Palacios said she tried to offer medical care to fellow detainees in need when they faced delays in accessing doctors and nurses, but detention facility staff told her not to.

They told her not to because they have their own staff for that and do not need the lawsuits which would ensue if they allow a non-staffer to administer Vigilante Nursing.

And of course this is CBS's attempt to sell this illegal alien to you. "She offers advice to other detainees while in detention! She's a regular Florence Nightingale!"

"The conditions in the detention centers have never ever been worse because they're so overcrowded," said Jen Grant, a supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society in New York.

Palacios asked an immigration judge for a bond for her release from detention, but her request was denied.

Oh, so she did get due process.

"They weren't looking at the roots that I created in the United States," Palacios said. "The job that I had lined up, the career, the life that I had built for myself, they never took nothing into consideration."

Because the law isn't concerned about what "roots" you claimed to put down. You are here against the law and we want you O U T. Period.

She's not the only one who struggled to get out of detention while her case was pending. Last year, 30% of rulings on bond were favorable to detainees, down from 59% in 2024, the CBS News analysis found.

Good.

Thanks to Comrade Arthur: For some countries, Biden allowed over 5% - 6-7% -- of their entire national populations to illegally come to the US and stay here perpetually, while they waited for the "due process" of their frivolous asylum claims to be worked through.

And then, of course, after all the due process was worked through and they received their final notice of deportation, they still remain here, with CBS "News" demanding MOAR DUE PROCESS.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:17 PM

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