Thread: Court blocks deportations of several Central American families

JANUARY 6, 2016 11:24 AM

Court blocks deportations of several Central American families

Action by the nation’s highest immigration court is called a small breakthrough

The cases prove migrants are deported before exhausting legal options, lawyers argue

Weekend raid was consistent with priorities to remove recent arrivals, feds say



The nation’s highest immigration court has blocked the deportations of a handful of families who were apprehended as part of an effort to combat illegal immigration. In this March 3, 2015 photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning raids. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Richard Drew AP

BY FRANCO ORDOÑEZ
fordonez@mcclatchydc.com

WASHINGTON The nation’s highest immigration court has delayed the deportations of four families out of hundreds of Central American migrant adults and children rounded up in raids over the New Year’s weekend as part of a nationwide effort to combat illegal immigration, according to the families’ lawyers. They expect to win a fifth stay this morning.

The Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision, made late Tuesday, is a small yet potentially significant breakthrough for lawyers fighting the raids, as it raises questions about Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s assurances to the public this week earlier this week that those being deported had exhausted all their legal options.

The families’ lawyers said the stays of deportation had been granted to allow time to appeal their cases to the Board of Immigration Appeals – a step none of them had yet taken. The families had been scheduled to be deported from the United States on Wednesday morning back to their home countries of El Salvador and Honduras.

“What does it mean when we get five out of six cases stayed? That means something is wrong here,” said one of the lawyers, Laura Lichter, general counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “If there was no case, nothing here, we wouldn’t have gotten the stay.”

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Tell the court to go screw itself and deport them anyway. Let the judges come and try to enforce their shit ruling.

This is what you get with politicians who just want to "enforce the law".