1 hour ago
4
ACLU lawyer calls Trump administration's statement successful deportation suit "preposterous"
A showdown successful national tribunal successful Denver could assistance signifier the ineligible scenery surrounding deportations.
A high-stakes proceeding successful Denver successful a lawsuit filed by immigrants' rights groups against the Trump medication concluded Monday morning. Attorneys for the Trump medication argued that radical facing deportation should beryllium allotted 24 hours' announcement to beryllium capable to combat their deportation bid successful court, but attorneys for the ACLU and Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network argued that 24 hours isn't "reasonable," arsenic ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The authorities wants to springiness arsenic small announcement arsenic imaginable truthful they tin propulsion radical retired of the state without a justice reviewing it," Tim Macdonald, ineligible manager of the ACLU of Colorado, told CBS News Colorado extracurricular the courthouse connected Monday. "The thought that 24 hours is capable for idiosyncratic who's detained astatine the Aurora detention facility, who apt doesn't talk English, who whitethorn not person a precocious level of education, who doesn't person a lawyer, who doesn't person entree to a telephone -- the thought that that idiosyncratic tin record a, quote, 'write of habeas corpus' successful 24 hours is preposterous."
Tim Macdonald, ineligible manager of the ACLU of Colorado, speaks astir the ACLU and Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network's suit against the Trump medication challenging deportations extracurricular the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse successful Denver, Colorado connected Monday, April 21, 2025.
CBS
Macdonald went connected to accidental that alleged Nazis were afforded much rights in tribunal aft World War II than Venezuelans facing deportation nether the Trump administration, echoing what a U.S. Appeals Court justice said successful Washington, D.C. past month.
Charlotte Sweeney, U.S. District justice for the District of Colorado, said connected Monday she wouldn't regularisation connected the lawsuit for 24 hours but during that hearing, attorneys for the ACLU and Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network said 11 radical person been deported from Colorado to El Salvador and that astir 85% of radical being held successful the Aurora ICE Processing Center person not yet been capable to clasp ineligible counsel, which those groups reason is simply a usurpation of their owed process rights.
Court records amusement the proceeding lasted conscionable implicit an hour. In summation to Mr. Trump, the defendants named successful the lawsuit see U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, ICE Director Todd Lyons, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, ICE Denver Field Office Director Robert Gaudian, and Dawn Ceja, warden of the ICE Processing Center successful Aurora.
This photograph shows the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse successful Denver connected Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
AP
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a uncommon play ruling temporarily halting the Trump administration's program to deport much Venezuelan migrants nether a seldom-used wartime instrumentality passed successful 1798, the Alien Enemies Act.
The determination came arsenic mass protests continued crossed the country denouncing the Trump administration's migration policies. The medication is urging the tribunal to reconsider its determination blocking the deportations.
The president has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, allowing the enforcement subdivision to detain oregon deport noncitizens it deems "dangerous." Last month, the medication utilized the instrumentality to nonstop much than 200 migrants to a prison successful El Salvador.
Now, El Salvador's president has projected exchanging the deported migrants for governmental prisoners held successful Venezuela.
In Denver, a national tribunal recently barred the removal of immoderate noncitizens wrong Colorado who are oregon volition beryllium taxable to the Alien Enemies Act. Some of those antecedently deported from Colorado person already been sent to the El Salvador prison, according to their attorneys.
At contented is what benignant of ineligible rights migrants person to situation the government's allegations earlier they are removed from the U.S.
Trump has said the United States is facing an "invasion" by the Tren de Aragua pack and that helium has the authorization to usage the 1798 law. The enactment was past invoked during World War II, including successful Colorado, to clasp Japanese Americans astatine internment camps, including Camp Amache.
"If you deliberation of internment camps during World War II successful the United States, that's the benignant of model that we're looking astatine successful presumption of however this instrumentality has been utilized successful the past," Laura Lunn, an migrant advocacy lawyer with the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, said.
Laura Lunn, an migrant advocacy lawyer with the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network.
CBS
The ineligible conflict has triggered a bid of exigency filings implicit the play aft the Supreme Court bumped a lawsuit retired of U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., saying it needed to beryllium filed successful Texas and different states from which radical are being deported.
Asked astir wherefore this lawsuit matters, Macdonald said, "if the authorities tin region these folks without owed process, it erodes civilian liberties for each 1 of us, and they could beryllium next. We could beryllium next. If the authorities is capable to dispense with owed process, it's a hazard for liberty for each of us."
Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the quality squad to make much grassroots relationships crossed communities and much archetypal contented astatine the vicinity level, ensuring divers voices are represented successful programming.
English (US) ·