‘I perceive this case is in litigation via the Alien Enemies Act, and we’ll abide by the court docket order as litigated,’ Homan mentioned.
The Trump administration won’t defy a federal choose’s orders on its deportation flights of Venezuelan nationals, border czar Tom Homan mentioned on March 23.
In an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC’s “This Week,” Homan pushed again on claims by some authorized specialists that the administration is defying judicial choices and mentioned the Venezuelans who had been deported had been given due course of in response to U.S. legal guidelines.
“We’re going to proceed to deport them from the USA. I perceive this case is in litigation via the Alien Enemies Act, and we’ll abide by the court docket order as litigated,” Homan mentioned.
The administration has since been in a back-and-forth with the court docket, with the choose ordering extra info on the timing of the flights and the standing of these on board and the Justice Division pushing again, suggesting it might invoke the state secrets and techniques privilege, which shields delicate nationwide safety particulars from being disclosed in civil litigation.
On Sunday, Karl requested Homan about Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, knowledgeable soccer participant whose attorneys say he was misidentified as a Tren de Aragua member partly as a result of he had a tattoo of a crown over a soccer ball and the Spanish phrase for God: “Dios.” Karl mentioned the soccer participant had been deported to a jail in El Salvador, the place he had restricted entry to his attorneys, who say he has no prison file.
Homan mentioned “they will make these claims” and that the administration has “info units of full choices” to find out who’s a member of Tren de Aragua.
He mentioned every particular person case could be litigated with the court docket, however that he wouldn’t “get into each particular case.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.