Trumpās Deportations Hit Major Snag as Judge Orders Man Released
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to release a man that it wrongly detained and planned to deport to El Salvador.
In a brief
one-page filing overnight Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera
ordered that the government not only release Adrian Gil Rojas, but that they buy him a ticket from Brownsville, Texas, back to New York.
āThe Court holds that the Petitioner is a Venezuelan national with a valid Temporary Protected Status and was wrongfully detained,ā Olvera wrote.
āThe Court further holds that Respondents produced no evidence that Petitioner is a danger to the public,ā he added.
The government had argued that it should be
allowed to detain and deport Gil Rojas because his TPS was set to expire on April 2, but his lawyer
insisted that he was in the process of reopening his immigration case, and that there was reason to believe that the Trump administrationās efforts to repeal TPS would fail.
The lawyer was right: on Monday, a San Francisco judge
blocked the government from revoking the protected status of about 350,000 Venezuelans. Judge Edward Chen slammed Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for making āsweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries.ā