Deportation of people to countries where they can skate or kill them? All is well, according to six judges.
Immigration and Customs Execution Agents (ICE) knock on the residence door on Sunday, January 26, 2025.
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I always knew that Donald Trump’s clumsy brutality would find help and comfort among Republicans in the Supreme Court. But I suggested that his brazen violations with the lower court could give the Republicans pause before Green will illuminate the Trump’s permanent terrorist campaign against people who were not born here.
On Monday, this small Sliver of Hope was spoiled. The Supreme Court ruled a ruling from his emergency doctor who allowed Trump to send immigrants to other naval countries where they could be tortured and killed. The Republican order violates the constitutional edition of this country, international laws on human rights, literal treaties to which this country is a signatorial and basic decency of man. In other words, it was a ruling of the Supreme Court of the Republicans.
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What our country can do it at all, sick and disgusting. Imagine: you come here, escaping violence in your country. Your simple presence in this country is considered a violation of our (stupid and cruel) immigration laws, so we decide to deport you. But our own government determines what we legs Send you back to your home country because the violence you fled was so real and obvious that there is a great chance that you will be killed if you are returned.
The rational game is to keep you here in America, in the country whose immigration law you have allegedly violated, but no, no, our government decides to send you to a completely different place.
You can imagine what countries that are ready on board our immigration problems for a fee. These are places such as Sal Salvador, which developed a whole flow of income from imprisonment and torture of immigrants, or South Sudan, a country that crashed in war and violence.
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The government should not send people to countries where they can be tortured. This is not only due to the moral imperative or the judicial rule. It was from the human rights agreement that this country has been part of the decades. It’s called Convention Against TortureAnd it is said: “No state party can expel or extradite a person into the state where there is significant reasons for the faith that he threatens to be tortured.”
In other words, if the judge determine that the place where the government is trying to send anyone can torture this person, if they get there, then the government must send them much yet.
It should not be a difficult rule to follow! And indeed, it has been watching for decades. But Trump and his legal lawyer John Sauer found a “breakthrough” in this rule. For any young lawyers who read: If someone asks you to find a “breakthrough” in a contract called Convention Against Torture… This is your signal that you work for bad guys. Throw now or pray that no decent people find what you used to do.
Honestly, it is obviously exists for situations where the judge has already prevented the government from sending an immigrant to the country specified by the government. According to the Trump administration, as soon as the judge blocked the deportation to any of the countries raising in the original hearing, the government may send an immigrant to a country that the government had never mentioned before, without the need to survive a second hearing to determine whether these countries are also riding.
So, when the government says, “We’re going to send you to Isengard,” and the judge says, “No, they will be killed by the white hand of Saruman,” Trump’s administration can say, “Great. But you didn’t say anything about Mordor,” and send them. This is obviously the letter and the spirit of the law and the convention against torture, but what reads you and me as “clearly” John Roberts and his legal arson as an “interesting problem”. What leads us to Dhs v. Dvd
The case provides four immigrants who went through the deportation hearings and received a decree that they could not be sent back to their countries. After these hearings, Trump decided to send them to South Sudan – a country that was not on the list of potential directions during the initial deportation procedure – not giving them another hearing to determine whether South Sudan would be for their safe place (spoiler: this is not).
The District Court Judge in Massachusetts blocked the deportation (later), but on Monday the Supreme Court intervened. Contrary to uninhabited opinion, six republican judges have ruled that Trump could restore deportations to countries that could violate the Convention against Torture, while the government continues to appeal the ruling from the lower sort.
The resolution of the Republicans was not in the “merits”, which means that the judges did not rule out whether the law of Trump violates the law. Instead, they issued a procedural ruling, taking away the power of the lower vessels to stop Trump’s twisted practice. This was a favorite step of the republican judges during the Trump administration: the lifting bans put against Trump by the lower courts and allow him to pursue his unconstitutional policy, while promising to manage the legality of this policy on an uncertain later date. It gives Trump a lot of time to do whatever you like, without the court to officially support it.
Again, I always expected that this Supreme Court would advocate the torture of immigrants. Republican judges like torture more than Jack Bauer. Where I was hoping for the daylight between Trump’s method of sending immigrants and the republican court method of sending immigrants, it was in question that the Government Galina establishes the rules of torture of immigrants. As I mentioned, Trump’s deportations were already blocked by the lower courts, but Trump still sent people. For example, the plaintiffs in this case were sent to Djibouti to the ruling on whether they could be sent to South Sudan. Legally, they had to stay in America while their case was discussed. I thought there was a chance that the Supreme Court would keep the ban on the bottom as a reproach of Trump’s consistent attempts to bypass the court rulings.
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But I was hoping for too much from Republicans. Justice Sonia Sotomoor emphasized the failure of her republican colleagues to defend the judiciary in her dissent. She wrote: “Thus, the government openly threw two court rulings, including the one from which he is now seeking relief. Even when the orders were adopted, the government pledged to obey them until they were” abolished and properly examined. “
Unfortunately, thanks to the Republican Supermament in the Supreme Court, the Trump government is not obliged to comply with the Lower Court rulings.
Now, when lifting the ban, Trump can restore the sending of immigrants to his pain and suffering, while the case breaks over the next few years to the Supreme Court on the usual docket. It is still possible that later, at a time when they choose at least two of the Republicans decide that the brazen violation of Trump in the Convention Against Torture Actually violates the Convention against Torture.
But while the Supreme Court expects to find out countless immigrants will be sent to places such as South Sudan, in violation of the convention against torture And the proper process of the law.
This is exactly what we do in this country now. We are the state -forced state, the threat on the international stage and the place that finds “cracks” in international human rights treaties. We are bad guys.
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