Lawyer Questioned about Deportations

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| CALIFORNIA

This past weekend, over 200 migrants from El Salvador were deported from the United States of America. A federal judge ordered them to return to the United States, but the airplane kept going to El Salvador.

District Judge James E. Boasberg was angry over the administration's argument that his verbal directions weren't followed - and only his written order had to be obeyed.

The order couldn't apply to flights that had already left the United States of America. 

Via AP NEWS:

“That’s one heck of a stretch, I think,” Boasberg replied, noting that the administration knew as the planes were departing that he was about to decide whether to briefly halt deportations being made under a rarely used 18th century law invoked by Trump about an hour earlier.

“I’m just asking how you think my equitable powers do not attach to a plane that has departed the U.S., even if it’s in international airspace,” Boasberg added at another point.

“There’s been a lot of talk about constitutional crisis, people throw that word around. I think we’re getting very close to it,” warned Lee Gelernt of the ACLU, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, during the Monday hearing. After the hearing, Gelernt said the ACLU would ask Boasberg to order all improperly deported people returned to the United States.

Boasberg said he’d record the proceedings and additional demands in writing. “I will memorialize this in a written order since apparently my oral orders don’t seem to carry much weight,” Boasberg said.

What an interesting turn of events.

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