Judge catches feds lying, orders deported families brought back
When the government lies to expel families and is only corrected by a court order, the scandal is not that the system failed. It is that this is how the system is now meant to work.
A federal judge has once again found that DHS agents’ lies violate the law and invalidate their deportation of three families. The judge ordered the government to undo their evil post haste.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that federal immigration agents used “lies, deception, and coercion” to remove them.
The families, according to U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, were originally separated at the southern border during the first Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance“ policy. They were supposed to be protected under a 2023 settlement that granted them temporary legal status and a path to reunification, but they were deported last summer.
In the eight-page ruling, Judge Sabraw found that the government’s removal of the families rendered the protections of the settlement “illusory.”
When the government lies to expel families and is only corrected by a court order, the scandal is not that the system failed. It is that this is how the system is now meant to work.
Also when the court order is just "You have to do what the law requires you to have done in the first place" rather than some kind of strong incentive not to do it again.