Trump’s Controversial Rendition Plan Draws Judicial Rebuke

Friday, May 2, 2025, 1:20 pm

The Trump administration’s plan to use an archaic law for transferring immigrants to El Salvador has hit a legal wall. A federal judge sharply criticized the proposal as a blatant abuse of authority and a human rights violation, calling into question the wisdom and legality of such extrajudicial practices.

techdirt.com / Trump Admits He Could Get Abrego Garcia Back, But Angrily Insists Non-Existent Tattoos Are The Reason He Won’t

Bizarrely buried near the bottom of NY Times article about the chaos behind the renditioning of people to a Salvadoran gulag is an important detail: the US and El Salvador have already brought back eight people who were “mistakenly” sent there: In Washington, the Trump administration was working to…

techdirt.com / Trump Administration Violated Human Rights Law By Paying El Salvador To Imprison Immigrants

This comes as no surprise. Pretty much everything about Trump’s extrajudicial rendering of undocumented migrants to a foreign hellhole prison has been awful, but rarely lawful, to twist a phrase that’s already pretty twisted. Resurrecting a law last used to justify the mass incarceration of…

techdirt.com / Trump Appointed Judge: No You Can’t Use Alien Enemies Act To Rendition Venezuelans

Well look who else thinks Trump’s plan to use a centuries-old law to vanish people to El Salvador is batshit crazy: one of his own judges, Fernando Rodriguez Jr. I’m sure the admin will be out there calling him a far-left radical Marxist before long. Let’s be clear about how absolutely unhinged…

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