The government of Donald Trump He staged on Monday a frontal challenge with the federal judge who ordered last weekend the blockade of the Immigrant Exportationwithout the required legal process, based on a law of 1798 designed for war situations. … In the greatest episode of confrontation with the Judiciary since Trump came to power last January, his administration refused to give information about deportation flights, defended that the judge’s verbal order was not valid and required the departure of the judge of the case.
The magistrate in question, James Boasberg, of Washington, cited the parties to try to understand if the Trump administration breached its order issued last Saturday. That is, if the Executive Power is jumping the separation of powers.
That day, Boasberg demanded that the Trump administration in an emergency view that reversed the deportation of hundreds of undocumented immigrants – which the government says they belong to the criminal organization of Venezuelan origin of Aragua -, decreed in a hurry by the government after the invocation of the Foreign enemies lawwhich has been used only in times of war: 1812 against the British, World War I and World War II.
The Trump administration did not do it: the three planes that left that day from Texas arrived at El Salvadorwhere immigrants entered the famous Maximum Security prison, thanks to an agreement between the US and the president of the country, Nayib Bukele.
In that vision Boasberg orally demanded that the US government did everything possible to avoid the deportation of immigrants until it could deal with the background of the matter and the application of that law for these cases. Specifically, he called for the planes to turn back if necessary. He also issued a written order, although without specifying the requirement that the planes would turn around, but demanding that will paralyze deportation.
The Trump administration has insisted until satiety that did not violate the judge’s order. President’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference, hours before Monday’s view, which the government acted “Within the limits of the law” And that the order came when immigrants had already left the US territory, a circumstance that the judge questioned as justification to breach his order.
Seize the judge of the case
But the Trump administration went beyond legally justifying whether or not he complied with the order: he challenged the judge frontally. Two hours before hearing, he announced in a letter that would not appear because he had no intention of giving any information about flights. At the same time, the Department of Justice demanded that the Court superior to Boasberg, the appeals of its district, which will separate the judge from the case. He accused him of carrying “highly unusual and inappropriate procedures.”
Finally, the government appeared in the view. But he refused to answer questions about the times of flights -he called “national security” reasons -something necessary to understand the fulfillment of the order. And he defended that he did not breach the order that the planes took the return, because the judge only did it specifically verbally, not in his writing. And that the order was not applicable because the airplanes outside the US territory.
The judge closed his view without making any decision, but demanded that the Trump administration deliver information about the exact moment in which the government believes that its order entered into force, in addition to an estimate of the number of people to whom it can affect the invocation of the President of the Law of 1798. The deadline to deliver the information is the midday on Tuesday.
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