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Today DHS deported nationals of Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Yemen, and Jamaica to Eswatini.

This case is the quintessential example of using the masters tools against him. The legal, doctrinal fiction that immigration detention and deportation is not punitive— FUNDAMENTAL to the entire edifice of immigration laws and deprives immigrants of the rights accorded criminals— turned in its head.

Breaking: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations An administrative stay on Friday morning blocks the Trump administration's efforts for now. A hearing is ongoing in D.C. this Fourth of July. Read the new claims at Law Dork

BREAKING: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations.

An administrative stay on Friday morning blocks the Trump administration's efforts for now. A hearing is ongoing in D.C. this Fourth of July.

Read the new habeas petition at Law Dork.

Indeed. I am shocked that all this stuff isn’t bigger news. Due blatant and deliberate violations of court orders (and of due process) just not generate outrage when they happen in the immigration context?

I am convinced, although I have no hard evidence, that ICE has gotten orders to go out and re-detain Iranians with final orders of removal, many out in the community on orders of supervision for decades as Iran wouldn't take them.

They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.

Guuuurl…

I'm writing this post in high dudgeon because what the Court endorsed today is unamerican and contemptuous not just of the role of the judiciary but also of the responsibility we have as a nation to those in our custody and those we subject to punishment.

I'm mad as hell. You should be too.

The very rule of law is undermined by this. Every immigrant is less safe. Hell, every citizen is less safe.

Defiance of court orders will now become far more common, as the Court makes it clear they will step in to save Trump from the consequences of refusal to obey.

It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.

ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

💅🕴️🌹

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees.

I am not making this up.

Turducken of illegality…you should trademark that.

ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.

“Stuck” is an odd word choice here. Judge Murphy asked ICE in open court if they could handle housing the men in Djibouti and arranging all the logistics involved in their CAT screenings there, and they said…YUP. Nothing is stopping the admin from bringing these men back to the US.

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🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY.

None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.

Read the story below.

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I wear a few somewhat incongruent hats these days. I am proud that, wearing one of them, I was fortunate enough to play a tiny part in bringing this phenomenal team effort to fruition.

This report is hard to read because it’s heartbreaking.

But please do read it - and share it widely 🙏

Ramirez v. Lyons, 1:25-cv-11514 - CourtListener.com Docket for Ramirez v. Lyons, 1:25-cv-11514 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

No, but here is the case number: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70384...

Add to the “bring him back!” list…

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Hurrah, Drew Ensign is here 😝

I am so happy Prof. Brown represents this client in this extremely disturbing situation and will bring the talents and energy of her clinic students to bear on his case. That’s whom I would want on my side. Let’s see what DHS reports tomorrow…

At an emergency hearing in the DVD v DHS lawsuit today, counsel for DHS claimed that the client was removed to Burma after all. The judge isn’t taking their word for it. DHS has to come back to court tomorrow and provide more details about where N.M. is.

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Prof. Jacqueline Brown, who- with the formidable Prof. Bill Ong Hing- directs the Immigration and Deportation Defense clinic at my alma mater, represents a Burmese client (“N.M.”), whom DHS first tried to remove to Libya and then to South Sudan.

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🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

“That’s incorrect.”

That’s a very generous way to put it.

The @nytimes.com can’t bring itself to say “the Trump admin lies in court.” His status was not complicated when DHS put him on a plane to El Sal. Like it says, the judge said that the ONE THING DHS COULD NOT DO is put him on that plane. Not complicated. Easy peasy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Journalists Exposed Bukele’s Gang Ties. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest We speak with a Salvadoran journalist who fled El Salvador along with others from the acclaimed news outlet El Faro after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele threatened to arrest them for exposing how Bukele...

Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest

Oops, yeah- he was born 1880 :)

Meanwhile…the “process” the Trump admin thinks is adequate…

Speaking of story…One name appears a lot in his file: Edward Ennis, the head of the Alien Enemy Control Unit. Talk about a wild career path… someone should make a movie, “From AECU to ACLU.”

encyclopedia.densho.org/Edward_Ennis