Trump’s Immigration Push is the Worst Legal Loss yet in Texas Borderland

When the Texas Supreme Court ruled against the deportation of an alleged gang member from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson

Texas is beginning to play a large role in litigation because of the vast network of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining facilities. Judge Rodriguez is one of three Texas judges who have so far heard challenges from groups of Venezuelans. When one of his colleagues, Judge James Wesley Hendrix in the Northern District of Texas, declined to stop the imminent deportation of another group of Venezuelans held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, the Supreme Court stepped in and issued an emergency order blocking it.

Courts have sought to stop deportations under the act. It is the first time that a judge has ruled that the act can’t be used against people who are alleged to be gang members.

An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that the court ruled that the president couldn’t invoke the authority of war to invade the United States. This is important to prevent people from being sent to the notoriousCECOT prison.

The idea that a threat exists of an armed group of individuals entering the United States at the direction of Venezuela to take over a portion of the nation is not supported by the Proclamation.

The court said that an invasion need not be a prelude to war because it involved an armed force entering the United States to destroy property and people.

The Department of Homeland Security didn’t reply right away. If the Trump administration appeals the decision, it would go to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, considered one of country’s most conservative courts. The case could end up going to the Supreme Court.

“(Tren de Aragua) is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela,” Trump wrote in his proclamation.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Deny the Use of the Wartime Power and the White House’s Implications to Immigration Policy

In late March, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a ruling by federal Judge James Boasberg and denied the White House’s use of the wartime authority by a vote of 2 to 1. Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, cited a lack of opportunity for the alleged gang members to contest the cases.

The court’s order resulted in the challenges to Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda spreading around the country, filling the dockets of federal judges and drawing tough and skeptical questioning from judges with excellent conservative credentials.

In another case, the judge of the Western District of Texas ordered the release of a couple from Venezuela after rejecting government claims that they were members of the group.