The curious case of a judge who wants to keep gang bangers in US
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News and addressed a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted his administration’s efforts to deport migrants. Speaking on “The Ingraham Angle” with host Laura Ingraham, Trump emphasized that his administration has not defied the court’s directive and expressed optimism that the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately side with him if the matter reaches the nation’s highest judicial body.
The controversy began on Saturday when U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued a temporary block on deportations. That same day, Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), resulting in the deportation of over 200 migrants to El Salvador. Since then, questions have emerged about the timing of the judge’s order and whether it applied to a deportation flight reportedly over international waters at the time. These uncertainties have sparked a legal clash between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Judge Boasberg.
During the Fox News segment, Ingraham pressed Trump on whether he would consider defying Boasberg’s ruling. “I never did defy a court order,” Trump responded firmly. When Ingraham followed up, asking if he might defy a future order, Trump dismissed the idea, stating, “No, you can’t do that. However, we have bad judges.” He went on to criticize the judiciary, adding, “We have very bad judges, and these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed. I think at a certain point you have to start looking at what do you do when you have a rogue judge. The judge that we’re talking about, he’s, you look at his other rulings, I mean rulings unrelated, but having to do with me, he’s a lunatic.”
Trump also suggested that Boasberg’s inquiries into the specifics of the deportation flights—such as their departure times—might be an attempt to accuse his administration of noncompliance. “He wants details of when flights departed and trying to, I guess they seem to be trying to lay the predicate for your administration having defied a court order,” Trump said. He noted that the DOJ has resisted providing detailed flight information and has filed a motion to prevent further disclosures, signaling ongoing tension with the court.
The legal back-and-forth intensified over the weekend. On Saturday evening, Boasberg held an emergency hearing and expanded his initial order, clarifying that “all noncitizens in U.S. custody” were protected from deportation. However, according to CBS News, the judge did not mandate that flights already airborne be recalled to the United States.
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The department argued that complying with the judge’s requests could compromise national security and foreign relations by revealing sensitive details. In response, Boasberg ordered the DOJ to submit a sealed filing addressing his questions by noon on Wednesday.
Ingraham later asked Trump about the possibility of Supreme Court intervention and whether he believes the court would rule in his favor. “I do, because the job of getting people out of our country that are murderers, that are absolutely the worst people, the drug lords are causing such problems in this country,” Trump replied. He emphasized the urgency of removing dangerous individuals, stating, “Drug lords came in, the biggest of them. They left other countries to come in here. They came through an open border. They’re making millions of dollars destroying people’s lives, killing people, and that’s a presidential thing.”
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It is hard to tell what Judge Boasber's point is. Why does he want to keep Tren de Aragua in the US? They are a foreign gang of criminals with no real ties to the US. I think Trump is right to want to block the criminal invasion of the US by drug gangs. Trump is trying to protect Americans and it looks like this judge is trying to protect foreign criminals.
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