Weekend Developments - 4/21/25
- In a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s Return to Mexico policy that blocked asylum seekers from remaining in the US to prosecute their claims, on Wednesday (April 16, 2025), Judge Bernal, the Central District of California judge who has this case, granted a stay order, giving it nationwide effect, and blocking the reinstatement of the Return to Mexico policy. The decision may be found at https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.799929/gov.uscourts.cacd.799929.405.0.pdf
- A federal judge ordered ICE to move the Tufts student, Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, whose arrest by ICE agents near her campus was widely decried from Louisiana to Vermont by May 1. See the April 18, 2025 WBUR article by Jesús Marrero Suárez entitled, Judge orders ICE to move detained Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont by May 1.
- Justice Alito’s dissent to the Supreme Court’s stay on the deportation of a class of Venezuelans, which focuses on the legality of the Supreme Court issuing the stay and would be more persuasive if the presumption of regularity could be reasonably applied to the Trump administration.
- The DOJ response to the Supreme Court’s stay on the deportation of a class of Venezuelans, which like the Alito dissent focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court to issue the stay at this time and makes an odd argument why the Venezuelans are not at risk of suffering irreparable harm and thus not entitled to injunctive relief.
If you would rather be reassured by a brief article you may want look at the April 19, 2025 Above the Law column by Joe Patrice entitled, Maybe Don’t ‘Both Sides’ Disappearing People To Foreign Gulags, OK?