Judge accuses the Trump administration of ‘manufacturing’ chaos in migrant deportation case

By REBECCA SANTANA WASHINGTON AP A federal judge suggested the Trump administration was manufacturing chaos and declared he hoped that reason can get the better of rhetoric in a scathing order in a event about regime efforts to deport a handful of expatriates from various countries to South Sudan In the order published Monday evening Judge Brian Murphy wrote that he had given the Trump administration remarkable flexibility with minimal oversight in the episode and emphasized the numerous times he attempted to work with the establishment From the module of conduct it is hard to come to any conclusion other than that Defendants invite a lack of clarity as a means of evasion the Boston-based Murphy wrote in the -page order Murphy oversees a event in which immigration advocates are attempting to prevent the Trump administration from sending settlers they re trying to deport from the U S to countries that they re not from without giving them a meaningful chance to protest their removal The judge revealed the men couldn t advocate for themselves In a hearing last week called to address reports that eight immigrants had been sent to South Sudan Murphy revealed the men hadn t been able to argue that the deportation could put them in danger But instead of ordering the regime to return the men to the U S for hearings as the plaintiffs wished he gave the governing body the option of holding the hearings in Djibouti where the plane had flown on its way to South Sudan as long as the men remained in U S governing body custody Days later the Trump administration filed another motion saying that Murphy was requiring them to hold dangerous criminals in a sensitive location But in his order Monday he emphasized repeatedly that it was the authorities s own suggestion that they be allowed to process the men s suggests while they were still abroad It turns out that having immigration proceedings on another continent is harder and more logistically cumbersome than Defendants anticipated Murphy wrote The leadership has argued that the men had a history with the immigration system giving them prior opportunities to express a fear of being deported to a country outside their homeland And they ve explained that the men s home Cuba Laos Mexico Myanmar Vietnam and South Sudan would not take them back The administration has also repeatedly emphasized the men s criminal histories in the U S and portrayed them as national safety threats The administration is relying on third countries The Trump administration has increasingly relied on third countries to take immigrants who cannot be sent to their home countries for various reasons Specific countries only refuse to take back their citizens being deported while others take back several but not all of their citizens And various cannot be sent to their home countries because of concerns they ll be tortured or harmed Historically that has meant that immigration enforcement leaders have had to release people into the U S that it wants to deport but can t Related Articles NPR Colorado stations sues Trump administration over executive order to cut finding to population media Trump administration moves to cut million in federal contracts for Harvard White House conducting massive overhaul of National Shield Council administrators say Denver sues Trump administration over threat to withhold million in transportation funding Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign attendee enrollment at Harvard But the Trump administration has leaned on other countries to take them In the Western Hemisphere El Salvador Costa Rica and Panama have all agreed to take selected people being removed from the U S with El Salvador being the greater part controversial example because it is holding people deported from the U S in a notorious prison The Trump administration has declared it s exploring other third countries for deportations Murphy declared in his order that the eight men were initially stated May they d be going to South Africa and then later that same day were advised they were going to South Sudan He noted that the U S executive has issued stark warnings regarding South Sudan He stated the men had fewer than hours between being described they were going to be removed and going to the airport most of of which were non-waking hours and limited if any ability to talk to family or a lawyer Given the totality of the circumstances it is hard to take seriously the idea that Defendants intended these individuals to have any real opportunity to make a valid claim the judge wrote