Wednesday, May 07, 2025

“You’ll Have To Ask Homeland Security.”

The Trump administration is moving to deport Asian nationals, including Cambodians, Filipinos, and Vietnamese, to Libya, a new legal complaint filed in a Massachusetts federal district court alleged.

The migrants have no ties to the country, which is notorious for human rights abuses, and detainees who refuse to sign the paperwork authorizing it are being thrown in solitary confinement, the lawsuit alleges.

 The question is:

Non-refoulement is a core principle of international human rights, refugee, humanitarian, and customary international law, and is codified in U.S. statutes. It prohibits States from transferring or removing any person from their jurisdiction or effective control when there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations. The prohibition is enshrined in both customary international law and several treaties to which the United States is a party, as well as several U.S. domestic statutes. Specifically, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA), codified at 8 USC § 1231, states, “It shall be the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States.”
When are the crimes serious enough to justify impeachment and removal from office?

A) Never?

B) Half-past never?

C) Ten years after Hell freezes over.

Nixon would have been impeached and removed from office, had he not resigned. I never thought I’d say it, but Nixon was never this bad.

Just Security connects the law to CECOT and the American prisoners there are there under American authority and control. No need to speculate about transfers to Libya, who has announced (conveniently?) that they won’t accept any such transfer.

But still, the question remains: how long, O Congress, how long?  The answers above remain the most likely.

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