Adrian Florido
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Boasberg of the federal district court for D.C.
had put his criminal contempt inquiry on hold while the Trump administration filed appeals.
After an appeals court gave him the green light, he says he could start calling government officials to testify as soon as December 1st.
Earlier this year, Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration had purposely defied an order he issued during an emergency hearing in March that had turned back planes carrying Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
He said he would find out who had ignored that order and hold them accountable.
He has said he could go as far as appointing a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges.
Javier Ramirez says when Border Patrol agents raided the auto junkyard where he works near Los Angeles, he heard one say to another, I just hear him like, hey, just get him.
That's when they threw me down to the ground.
Andrea Velez says the ICE agents who arrested her on an L.A.
street kept addressing her in Spanish even after she declared her citizenship in English.
Both say they were racially profiled.
They may testify when congressional Democrats kick off a series of hearings later this month probing the treatment of U.S.
citizens caught up in the government's immigration dragnet.
The court's order was brief and unsigned, but its ramifications were clear. The government can, for the time being, move forward with expelling about 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua who benefited from the program known as humanitarian parole. The Biden administration had temporarily allowed them into the U.S. as long as they had a private sponsor.
The court's order was brief and unsigned, but its ramifications were clear. The government can, for the time being, move forward with expelling about 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua who benefited from the program known as humanitarian parole. The Biden administration had temporarily allowed them into the U.S. as long as they had a private sponsor.
President Trump tried to revoke their status on his first day in office, but lower courts blocked him. The program's ultimate fate is still being litigated, but for now the justices have said deportations can proceed.
President Trump tried to revoke their status on his first day in office, but lower courts blocked him. The program's ultimate fate is still being litigated, but for now the justices have said deportations can proceed.