Judge Orders Due Process for Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador

Is defying deportation orders a constitutional crisis, or are judges overstepping their authority on immigration law?

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Judge Orders Due Process for Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador

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Above: A guard at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador on Dec. 15, 2025. Image credit: John Moore/Getty Images

The Spin

Democratic narrative

Boasberg recognizes that the Trump administration's blatant disregard for judicial authority represents a constitutional crisis. When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deliberately defied a federal judge's explicit order to halt deportations, sending 137 Venezuelan men to brutal Salvadoran prisons based on an obscure 1798 wartime statute, she didn't just violate due process — she attacked the separation of powers itself. Boasberg was correct to demand due process for these migrants.

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Republican narrative

Boasberg is continuing the trend of federal judges manufacturing constitutional rights for illegal aliens that simply don't exist under the law. Immigration proceedings are civil matters, not criminal prosecutions, and aliens attempting entry have zero constitutional due process rights to contest removal. These activist judges are violating federal statutes that explicitly bar judicial review of deportation enforcement, and in many cases, they should be impeached.

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