Judge Boasberg Gives Trump Admin New Directive in Deportations Case

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Source: Newsweek

Published May 07, 2025 at 7:24 PM EDT


U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to disclose more details about the conditions in which Venezuelan migrants are being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The Context

Boasberg has been at the center of the Trump administration's effort to ramp up migrants' deportations. The Washington, D.C. judge dominated headlines in March when he tried to block the White House from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. Boasberg's order on Wednesday brings the court closer to determining whether the men should be brought back to the United States.

The Trump administration's deportation of the migrants to El Salvador drew intense scrutiny because, according to multiple media reports, the men who were swept up in by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were deported without due process and many of them had not been convicted of a crime. In one of those cases, regarding a Maryland father named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration has acknowledged several times that it deported Abrego Garcia by mistake.

What To Know

Boasberg said in Wednesday's order that the court needs more information from the Trump administration to assess whether the approximately 200 men—deported in March under the Alien Enemies Act, a seldom-used 18th-century wartime law—remain under effective U.S. custody. The legal question hinges on the extent of control the U.S. government still exerts over the detainees.

Boasberg said Wednesday: "Didn't the president say just last week that he could secure the return of Mr. [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia simply by picking up the phone and asking the president of El Salvador to release him? Was the president telling the truth?"

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[Lovie777]

1. These judges like most sane minded people should know..................

GQPs are habitual liars and the ring leader is shithole.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. SCOTUS defended due process 9-0 if I can remember to last month.

So yes judges should have no reservations about their footing on this case. The judiciary is staking its entire future on this issue. That's what I make of these proceedings.

[democrank]

3. Perhaps I'm a bit impatient over human rights abuses

but how many extensions/chances to come up with new explanations/ temporary pauses/ will the courts offer the lying, despicable White House tyrant?

[bluestarone]

5. I rec this thread , but i'm trying to think of what the hell the judge could do?

I agree 100%, i just wish we could think something really powerful that could stop these monsters.

[surfered]

4. What next? Will he do a Dean Wormer and put the Administration on double secret probation?

[NH Ethylene]

6. When he said he could pick up the phone and get Garcia back

He was admitting that he is in violation of a court order to arrange his return. Of course he can; it's ridiculous that he tried to pretend he is helpless to make that happen. But it's almost comical that Trump reveals himself, to his own detriment, just to make himself sound 'strong' and powerful. His ego is far more important to him than being in legal hot water.

[PSPS]

7. "Was the president telling the truth?" - a rhetorical question if there ever was one.