In the case of the Enemy Aliens Act deportation of 238 Venezuelan migrants to the terrorism prison in El Salvador, the Supreme Court just affirmed that no one can be deported without being told what is happening to them and having the opportunity to be heard before a judge ….. due process. However the all male majority on the court also ended the temporary restraining order allowing for now continued use of the Enemy Alien Act and possible continued deportation to the terrorism prison in El Salvador, cruel and unusual punishment. They also determined that migrants had brought their case to the wrong court and raised the wrong issues. They have to bring any case where they are being held in detention in Texas. Why not where they were arrested? Why not in Washington when challenging a policy of the Executive branch?
I’ve called out previously how distant the Court has become from the human condition, people’s actual lives, where they live. So what happens to the 238 individuals imprisoned in El Salvador, many of whom it seems have no criminal record? (60 Minute Special). I do not understand law without compassion but I think I see a pattern here. Make a decision based on a technicality or a minor related issue while allowing justice on the main issue to time out unaddressed. They ignore the people’s needs while supporting the tyrant. I think this is a politically motivated Supreme Court.
On the same day they allowed the mass firing of 16,000 “probationary” government employees, who were all told they were being fired for “poor performance” ….. for now. These people are screwed and the Court has allowed their interests to time out in deference to the tyrant. What will they do with the Temporary Protected Persons case, 632,000 people who cannot return to their home countries except at their peril. In this case the District Court said the government’s reasoning “dripped with racial animus” And yesterday AG Bondi ordered the removal of 900,000 people who applied for asylum, in good faith, through the on line Ap, claiming they are a threat to national security.
The Congress could stop these abuses but they are too wimped out and the Democrats alone do not have the votes. Seems they got a little worked up about the tariffs, that’s about money ….. but still too wimped out to actually do anything. We pray that the courts will protect the people but its looking pretty shaky. Coming down to the conscience of the Nation.
So the case of Abrego Garcia has reached the Supreme Court. See my post “Wrongly Deported”. Watch this one. So yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration “must facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States. We’ll see, the Trump Justice Department still seems to be resisting. The Trump administration’s treatment of individuals, immigrants but also U.S. citizens is digusting, shameful, an insult to our nation, inhumane, ignores the rule of law, is morally bankrupt and unfathomably cruel. That terrorism prison in El Salvador is cruel and unusual punishment.