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Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a Venezuelan couple Friday after a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Trump administration’s handling of their case did not have a “lawful basis.” U.S. District Judge David Briones of El Paso wrote in a searing ruling that ICE had not demonstrated convincing evidence that Julio Cesar Sanchez Puentes and Luddis Norelia Sanchez Garcia, who were detained for nine days, are members of the Tren de Aragua gang and are therefore “alien enemies.”
This is the first case in which a judge ruled on the Trump administration’s allegations that someone is a gang member subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act. President Donald Trump has invoked the infamous 1798 wartime law and claimed he can use it to deport Venezuelan migrants whom his administration claims are members of a gang that he has declared to be a terrorist organization. This is the basis his administration has used to ship hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, without due process, to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.
Briones wrote in his decision that the allegations in Sanchez Puentes and Sanchez Garcia’s case were based on “multiple levels of hearsay, hidden within declarations of declarants who have no personal knowledge about the facts they are attesting to....This court takes clear offense to respondents wasting judicial resources to admit to the court it has no evidence, yet seek to have this court determine petitioner Sanchez Puentes is ‘guilty by association’” by being married to his wife, Briones wrote."
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Please pray for the health and safety of the hundreds of innocent people Trump has sent to a foreign gulag.
Maybe these cases won't take as long as Trump thinks. When you're actually innocent, you don't have to drag out a case for years as he did for his own crimes.
This is the first case in which a judge ruled on the Trump administration’s allegations that someone is a gang member subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act. President Donald Trump has invoked the infamous 1798 wartime law and claimed he can use it to deport Venezuelan migrants whom his administration claims are members of a gang that he has declared to be a terrorist organization. This is the basis his administration has used to ship hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, without due process, to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.
Briones wrote in his decision that the allegations in Sanchez Puentes and Sanchez Garcia’s case were based on “multiple levels of hearsay, hidden within declarations of declarants who have no personal knowledge about the facts they are attesting to....This court takes clear offense to respondents wasting judicial resources to admit to the court it has no evidence, yet seek to have this court determine petitioner Sanchez Puentes is ‘guilty by association’” by being married to his wife, Briones wrote."
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Please pray for the health and safety of the hundreds of innocent people Trump has sent to a foreign gulag.
Maybe these cases won't take as long as Trump thinks. When you're actually innocent, you don't have to drag out a case for years as he did for his own crimes.
