The Trump administration has received this Saturday a new varapalo from US justice. In this case, it has been A judge who has dictated the arrest of Venezuelan deportations that the White House Cabinet would have ordered. Other magistrates have already faced Trump’s decisions Since he took the country’s leadership in his second term, prohibiting the layoffs of thousands of federal workers in Californiaand ordering the readmission of part of the ceased During the first months of its public spending cut plan.
On this occasion, Judge James Boasbergbelonging to the district of Columbia, has ordered the arrest of deportations that the Trump administration was exercising Based on the Law of Foreign Enemies of 1798. This rule allows the expulsion of foreign citizens who suppose a threat or danger to the security of the United States.
This group of Venezuelans would be linked to a pandilla called Aragua train. Trump considers this gang a threat, by relating it to measures taken by Nicolás Maduro to attack the North American country.
However, Judge Boasberg sees indications that these deportations They do not run just to expel these alleged gang membersand also, Nicolás Maduro repudiates the Aragua train. Therefore, the magistrate has ordered the US government to cease deportations immediately already Turn those planes that have come out to land towards other countries with deported Venezuelan immigrants.
The United States government responds
The Trump administration responded immediately to the judge’s ruling, through the Department of Justice. The United States government considers that the Judge Boasberg failures They are “a massive and unauthorized imposition to the Executive’s authority to expel dangerous foreigners who represent threats to the American people. “
According to American media, the White House administration would have kept the application of this Law for the Deportation of Venezuelans, until several immigrant associations denounced such expulsions.
Maduro answers Donald Trump
Nicolás Maduro has answered the Trump administration With respect to the deportations of Venezuelans, protecting in law that of foreign enemies of 1798.
From Caracas They qualify the law as something that “criminalizes, in an infamous and unfair way” and strongly criticizes the measure by ensuring that it is an “anachronistic law, violation of human and illegal rights” and that “evokes the darkest episodes of the history of humanity.”
