Originally published at: Judge Smacks Down Kristi Noem in Epic Ruling
Ruling Preserves TPS for Haitians The top line here is that U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes of D.C. temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States. In doing so, she averted, at least for now, a feared draconian roundup of Haitians who have been legally…
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Good morning
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Did Judge Reyes slap her hard enough to dislodge those hair extensions?
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Speaking of blocking the administration - this was covered last night on Rachel Maddow
As ICE seeks to expand footprint in Va., Youngkin’s final-day prison sale directive draws scrutiny
Outgoing governor ordered state officials to sell shuttered Augusta Correctional Center to a private buyer; Spanberger rescinds action amid questions over process and future use.
h/t to @21zna9 for reminding me which program.
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Two Haitian women took care of my mother in her last years of life. They had more compassion in their little fingers than any member of the Trump administration. Deport the fascists.
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Are you new to this planet, Judge?
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Beyond the top line, what made Judge Reyes’ ruling especially memorable was the way she obliterated the Trump administration’s arguments and zeroed in on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, ruling that it “seems substantially likely” that Noem terminated the humanitarian protections for Haitians because of her “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
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Reyes is obviously out of step with the direction the U.S. is taking. Rampant xenophobic, racist fascism is all the rage. And will be for years to come. Anyone thinking we’ll turn over a new leaf in 2 or 5 or 10 years is deluded.
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You cannot believe one thing the Feds say anymore…How to ruin reputation of Federal Law Enforcement in 12 months.
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KEY QUESTION: Where will the payment be sent? I suspect this will go into that “unfreezable” offshore account in Qatar.
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No, but its a Trump nominated judge. And Trump doesn’t nominate honest people.
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I’d love to smack down Krusty Noem.
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Trump has to destroy the Kennedy Center to save it.
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TFG - bringing world unity - against the US.
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Rachel Maddow covered a bunch of blocked ICE detention centers last night. People are really rising up against this shit.
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Judge Ana Reyes decision is a thing of beauty. She beat back Noem with her own words. She then introduced the plaintiffs who Noem described as leeches etc.
Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.
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Local leaders push back against potential ICE detention center in San Antonio
A side of town I know little about.
Something I was not aware of.
ICE buys warehouse on San Antonio’s East Side, angering local officials
But ICE would not have to get the green-light from the city or the county to open a processing facility at Oakmont 410. City spokesman Brian Chasnoff said the city would have no zoning authority over it. Properties owned by or leased to the federal government do not have to adhere to local zoning rules and permitting requirements.
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The document the Dallas Morning News obtained shows ICE plans to open “mega” detention centers in Hutchins and El Paso and smaller processing centers in Los Fresnos along with San Antonio.
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