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Maduro's case is expected to be overseen by #US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein because he was assigned to the 2020 case brought against #Maduro.

The 92-year-old jurist has been skeptical of arguments by the #Trump admin in other high-profile cases. Earlier this year, Hellerstein rejected efforts to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members under the #AlienEnemiesAct, saying the wartime #law had been improperly invoked by the admin.

#imperialism #geopolitics #Venezuela #oil #sovereignty

Court To Trump: Just Chanting ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Doesn’t Make Due Process Rights Disappear

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/30/court-to-trump-just-chanting-alien-enemies-act-doesnt-make-due-process-rights-disappear/

All about the infamous CECOT prison — on which CBS's Bari Weiss pulled a story

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/cecot-story-bari-weiss-spiked

"Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains free while judge considers immigration issues"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgfEdj-FlrI

https://piped.video/watch?v=lgfEdj-FlrI

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lgfEdj-FlrI

#uspol #politics #KilmarAbregoGarcia #AbregoGarcia #MassDeportations #CECOT #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HabeasCorpus #ICE #AssociatedPress #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #ElSalvador #MAGA #Project2025

"#Zohran Explains How To Defeat #ICE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3eLmJrG_w

https://piped.video/watch?v=5J3eLmJrG_w

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5J3eLmJrG_w

#uspol #politics #ICE #ZohranMamdani #MassDeportations #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #DueProcessClause #HabeasCorpus #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #Project2025 #MAGA

How long until Christoph Waltz is offered the role as an #ICE agent? I mean, he can just revive Hans Landa.

#uspol #politics #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #DueProcessClause #HabeasCorpus #MassDeportations #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #MAGA #Project2025

Here is the full text what the immigration judge ordered in 2019. As Judge #Xinis notes, NONE of these three things include an order of removal.

The government tried to argue that the withholding grant was "implicitly" a removal order, but the #law requires an explicit one.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

The withholding decision also included a separate "order" that did not command Abrego Garcia's removal to El Salvador or anywhere else. Id. The order reads in its entirety: ORDER It is hereby ordered that: I. the Respondent's application for asylum pursuant to INA? § 208 is DENIED; II. the Respondent's application for withholding of removal pursuant to INA § 241(b)(3) is GRANTED; and III. the Respondent's application for withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture is DENIED. ECF No. 1-1 at 15 (dated and signed by IJ).

Judge #Xinis finds that #KilmarAbregoGarcia was NEVER ordered deported in 2019. She notes that ever since this began in March 2025, the government has NEVER been able to produce ANY evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents' counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what ... document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There's no charge. There's no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that's the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11-22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found:

The Court: Okay. So if there's a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that's being executed, and we don't have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? ... Do you have that order?... Is it in the record? I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Counsel: Id. at 23:7-24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 99 68-69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15-17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11-12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16-22 (testimony of Cantú) (*Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not."). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6-12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles ("Giles")) ("Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not."). I Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.

US District Judge Paula #Xinis ruled that #ICE must release #KilmarAbregoGarcia from custody immediately.

“Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority,” the judge wrote. “For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia’s Petition for immediate release from ICE custody.”

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation-31160936c51932f74b717eb1143edd55?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-11-Breaking+News

🚨Judge orders #KilmarAbregoGarcia to be released from #ICE custody ‘immediately’

A federal judge in Maryland ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE custody “immediately,” acc/to a Thursday court filing, a significant development in the case concerning the El Salvadoran mistakenly deported this year before being returned to the #US.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/judge-orders-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-be-released-ice

FFS

#DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of #Boeing 737s for #deportations
 The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for #immigration enforcement approved by #Congress.

#Trump #law #Constitution #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #InternationalLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/10/dhs-deport-boeing-contract/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@shaedrich/114892345230087732

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKSgM0G1xQ

https://piped.video/watch?v=-yKSgM0G1xQ

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#uspol #DueProcess #HabeasCorpus #politics #ICERaid #ICE #AlienEnemiesAct #MAGA #Project2025 #TheNewsMovement #OperationMidwayBlitz #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HomelandSecurity #DanMing #SamLuhmann #BenLuhmann #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #UnitedStatesDepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #UnitedStatesImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement

Judge #Boasberg to resume #criminal #contempt inquiry into #Trump ofcls involved in #AlienEnemiesAct #deportation flights

A federal judge said Wed that he plans to “promptly” move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump admin ofcls were responsible for flouting his orders in a high-stakes #immigration case – & whether they will face punishment for their actions.

#law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/boasberg-contempt-of-court-alien-enemies-act-flights?cid=ios_app

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIJuGOBhxSs

https://piped.video/watch?v=uIJuGOBhxSs

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uIJuGOBhxSs

#uspol #politics #Trump #DonaldTrump #SecondTrumpAdministration #MassDeportations #HabeasCorpus #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #ICE #HomelandSecurity #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DHS #MAGA #Project2025

Venezuelans That US Sent to El Salvador Mega-Prison Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse

CECOT is “where people are sent for permanent punishment and separation,” says a human rights advocate.

https://murica.website/2025/11/venezuelans-that-us-sent-to-el-salvador-mega-prison-faced-torture-sexual-abuse/

As MJ & other outlets have reported extensively, most of the men had NO serious criminal history in the #US or elsewhere in the world. What they often had instead were #tattoos that bore NO relation to the gang.

The new report offers even more evidence of the #inhumane treatment the #Venezuelan #immigrants endured in #ElSalvador.

#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity

In early 2025, the #Trump admin flew Venezuelan immigrants to Salvadoran President #Bukele’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center [#CECOT], where they were held for 4 months without communication w/ their families & lawyers. The US govt had accused the men of being members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua & removed most of them from the #US under the #AlienEnemiesAct—an 18th-century #law that Trump has invoked for only the 4th time in US history.

#immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess

#Beatings. #SexualAssault. #PsychologicalAbuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the >250 men the #UnitedStates sent to #ElSalvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, acc/to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by #HRW & #Cristosal, a #HumanRights group focused on #CentralAmerica.