A majority of the justices concluded that the Venezuelan migrants had brought their cases in the wrong court but that they were entitled to an opportunity to challenge their removal.
The Trump administration sought to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport more than 100 Venezuelans to the Terrorist Confinement Center prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, last month, prompting a legal challenge.
The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
CoreCivic signed a five-year, $246 million contract to reopen a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, seen in 2015. The company is one of several private detention operators to have already signed new contracts since President Trump took office.
To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.
Judge Paula Xinis, who has ordered that the Trump administration return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, by Monday, also rejected a request to pause that order.
Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, listening to her husband’s attorney speak at the Federal District Court in Greenbelt, Md., on Friday.
Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.
Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.
A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.
Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
The Department of Justice building in Washington. Erez Reuveni was promoted to acting deputy director of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation two weeks ago.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.
A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.
A federal judge said officials had acted without “legal basis” last month when they arrested the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and put him on a plane to a notorious Salvadoran prison.
Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who is married to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, celebrated the judge’s decision on Friday with a cheering crowd of supporters.
The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.
Tuesday night’s address will be a remarkable return to a chamber that President Trump last addressed five years ago, before voters ousted him from office.
Rights groups criticized the Thai government for sending the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority, back to China, where they face the risk of torture and imprisonment.