cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28124788

There’s a real risk that hundreds of people sent to a brutal prison camp will never be free.

Henrry Jose Albornoz Quintero was scheduled to attend an immigration court hearing in El Paso Thursday. He didn’t. The immigration judge presiding over his case was not happy.

“He just disappeared? What happened?”

The Trump administration lawyer either could not say — or would not.

“All I can disclose at the moment is that he’s no longer in ICE custody,” the lawyer said, according to the notes of Albornoz Quintero’s attorney, who attended the hearing.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Separately, the high court has temporarily allowed Trump to resume Alien Enemies Act expulsions, though the court said people targeted under the president’s declaration have a narrow right to make a habeas corpus claim in a conservative Texas court — a challenging argument in a challenging venue.

    Habeas petitions, which require authorities to justify a person’s detention, generally depend on a given defendant being physically present in a given judicial district. What about all those already in CECOT? No court has addressed the issue head-on.

    “I don’t know exactly what needs to happen. The problem is, [the Supreme Court didn’t] address what happened to the people that already got deported … What about the toothpaste that’s already out of the tube?” Giardina asked.

    “Habeas petitions go to the federal district courts where somebody is housed, or where they’re physically located,” Giardina said. “Convincing a district court [judge] in Texas that he still has jurisdiction over a habeas claim for a body that’s no longer in his jurisdiction — probably going to be a tall order. The argument would be that he was in your jurisdiction when his rights were violated, but again, never happened before.”

    Yep, supreme court gets to pretend to be against some flagrant human rights violation to keep up their appearances while making sure nobody’s actually able to do anything about it, that’s the Roberts court we all know and hate

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      15 days ago

      This is like their effective nullification of the 14th Amendment. Basically, they agreed it’s law but made it impossible for anyone to enforce it.

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    16 days ago

    The only thing that might be worse than being disappeared by ICE is coming face to face with Trump’s black hole…

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    Wow, that’s great! Now the democrats will be able to run a new, empty platform about closing the El Salvador deportation camps!!!

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      “We’ll really get them in the mid-terms now! In two years… from amid the ruins… if we’ve not been deported.”