A judge ruled President Donald Trump’s administration must arrange for the return of a group of alleged Venezuelan gang members deported to a prison in El Salvador.
US District Judge James Boasberg ruled about 137 men sent in March to the notorious CECOT prison deserve to return to the US to contest in court how they were designated for removal without due process under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
The government must "facilitate" their return and submit a plan within two weeks.
Boasberg declared yesterday the men "should not have been removed in the manner that they were, with virtually no notice and no opportunity to contest the bases of their removal, in clear contravention of their due-process rights".
The US must "undo the effects of their unlawful removal by facilitating a meaningful opportunity to contest their designation" as alien enemies. — TCA
