Originally published at: DHS Sent Detainees To South Sudan On Tuesday In ‘Blatant’ Defiance Of Judge, Attorneys Allege - TPM – Talking Points Memo
DHS is violating a court order to remove a group of detainees to South Sudan, lawyers told a federal judge on Tuesday. Around one dozen people — including a person with a removal order to Myanmar and a person with a removal order to Vietnam — were loaded onto planes and sent to South Sudan on…
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These are war crimes.
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“You see, judge, this is not a third country at all because South Sudan has granted them citizenship.”
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Have we reached “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” yet?
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I can see them pulling that shit, have they actually?
Earlier the government voided all visas for South Sudanese passport holders. Perhaps this is the quid pro quo for restoring them?
My kid knows someone who is from South Sudan, but fled before the South Sudanese state existed. I have no idea what passport she now holds or if she was at risk of being deported back to the place her family fled when she was a child. It was hard to explain to my kid that there is no system that ensures fairness in such situations.
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I’m just trying to imagine what loophole Steven Miller invented this time to rationalize it. Last time, it was the bullshit “international waters” excuse.
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There is a nice place at the Hague for the peeps pulling this stunts.
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‘South Sudan isn’t a real country’.
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At this point, Trump is running an utterly lawless regime. The only things he won’t do, or try to do, are the few instances when he runs up against someone who has the ability to impose meaningful consequences.
Only time will tell just who has that “meaningful” ability.
It would sure be useful if one of the Trumpites actually were to see the inside of a jail cell for a while.
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Only if you can get them there.
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Well, we keep getting assured that once they’re actually violating Court Orders, those contempt charges will flow…
We seeing any yet? Anyone?
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Isn’t this blatant contempt of court? Who goes to jail first? The DOJ lawyers? Miller? TCF?
If the WH team doesn’t have to follow court orders, then I guess nobody has to.
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If they are taking their time to ensure that once they impose a contempt finding, it holds up on appeal, there is a logic to that.
Trump is violating the law so often, and so quickly, it is clear that he is depending on getting inside of the decision cycle of the legal system – getting things done so quickly that it can’t respond fast enough to have its intended effect.
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Trump is a felon, and he and his administration continue their criminal behavior.
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Civil contempt (ie: the kind of contempt Trump can’t just pardon) isn’t generally appealable.
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South Sudan is a human disaster, Like Sudan, like Gaza. Americans throw innocent Americans into hellholes off our shores without a hearing and in defiance of our courts, lawlessly and without cause or one drop of mercy. We are a moral disaster.
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What’s the line on, “Blown right past it?”
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South Sudan.
Like, where USAID was sending famine relief.
With Libya, it sounds like we’re brushing up against, “Just shoot them.”
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It’s quite chilling to consider this report in light of the CATO Institute (ffs!) finding that 50 of 238 men “deported” to the El Salvador torture prison were legal immigrants. Repeat, they were not undocumented, they broke no laws, there were here legally and now they are imprisoned for life in a gulag
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