The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members.

Interesting highlights:

  • “Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung.
  • “Basically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,” Adam Isacson of the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on X.
  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    4 hours ago

    Well well well, if it isn’t that bridge in the rearview mirror that we were told wouldn’t be crossed but was also set on fire for good measure. And who could’ve seen my rep needing another $5 because it’s really dire this time, you guys.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    67·
    5 hours ago

    As long as Trump obeyed the judges - or at least didn’t disobey them - he was still south of the dictatorship line. Now he’s crossed the line. Because the judicial was the last rampart before tyranny, and all previous dictatorships became official when they started ignoring the law.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      19·
      4 hours ago

      Lock them up. This takes the support of people in ICE and elsewhere in the executive branch. If Trump wants to personally fly the plane down there, let him try.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        131·
        4 hours ago

        Normally the judge can deputize state officials to perform the arrest, but I think the attorney general can come up with a way to stop them, which she is definitely compromised. The only way to detain the people performing the orders would be for the states to make the arrests.

        • dryfter@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Red states won’t because MAGA

          Blue states don’t want to risk loosing anymore funding

          • krashmo@lemmy.world
            5·
            46 minutes ago

            Blue states are largely sources of federal funding, not consumers. If they want to effectively increase federal funding they can just stop sending their money to the feds. If we’re ignoring laws we don’t like it’s time for a few governors to test that practice.

            • grue@lemmy.world
              2·
              23 minutes ago

              The federal funding comes mostly from income tax. States don’t send it; individual or their employers do.

  • shani66@ani.social
    5·
    3 hours ago

    So, who’s actually in charge of arresting the president? It’s a random cop supposed to go in and deliver the procedural beat down and arrest?

    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
      131·
      5 hours ago

      The only thing you will see are the judges electing to arrest the ones carring out the orders. It has to come from the states I would think. He would just pardon whoever if it’s a federal arrest.