3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day

[Eugene]

Source: Good Morning America

3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day

PETER CHARALAMBOUS and ARMANDO GARCIA
Wed, February 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM EST 3 min read

The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week.

After being held in immigration custody for over a year and facing the possibility of transfer to Guantánamo Bay, the three men asked a federal court to intervene, warning they might have “disappeared into the legal black hole” of Guantánamo.

Last Sunday, a federal judge in New Mexico handed down a surprise ruling blocking the Trump administration from sending the men to Guantánamo -- the first successful legal challenge to the policy since it was enacted last month.

But their victory was short-lived.

The very next day, the men were placed on the first deportation flight back to Venezuela in over a year, according to their lawyer Jessica Vosburgh.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-migrants-beat-trump-administration-113347707.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. The Trump regime is vicious, brutal and swift. With no regard for the law.

The MAGAs love it.

[Deuxcents]

2. If they won their court case then I assume they were not guilty but they got deported anyway. 😠

[MichMan]

5. They won the case to not be deported to Gitmo

They were sent back to Venezuela instead per the previous order of the immigration judge.

[underpants]

6. The little Trump 💩bags worked around the WHERE part of the ruling

“It's hard to imagine that it didn't have something to do with them filing a habeas petition and then stepping forward to challenge these threatened Guantanamo transfers,” Vosburgh told ABC News. “The court's order only applied to transfers to Guantánamo, this is just a slap in the face to get deported the next day.”

[FBaggins]

7. They didn't really "win" their case

What they won was a temporary pause on a move from one form of custody over to Gitmo - all while awaiting deportation that had already been ordered. All the judge had decided at this point was that they could not be transferred to Cuba while a decision was pending... but that didn't change the fact that they could be deported.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Venezuelan refugees were in the US under the 2023 TPS (temporary protected status) until February 1, 2025.

[MichMan]

4. They had been in immigration custody for over a year

Appears that their asylum claims were denied.

"The asylum-seekers passed credible fear interviews at the border that temporarily allowed them to stay in the U.S. An immigration judge later ordered their removal from the country. The repatriation got complicated due to deteriorating relations with Venezuela since the U.S. tightened sanctions on the Nicolas Maduro regime."

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/migrant-centers/venezuelan-migrants-sue-for-release-afer-nearly-a-year-at-ice-detention-center/