A U.S. district judge facing calls for impeachment and arrest issued another America Last ruling in favor of alleged international gang members to “satisfy the requirements of due process.”
In the category of promises made, promises kept, President Donald Trump’s administration has worked throughout the year to remove hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, including those said to have ties to violent gangs like Tren de Aragua (TdA). Now, months after alleged members of the Venezuelan gang, deemed a foreign terrorist organization, have been conveyed back to their homeland, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg has ordered them returned by the beginning of next year.
“The Court finds that the only remedy that would give effect to its granting of Plaintiffs’ Motion would be to order the Government to undo the effects of their unlawful removal by facilitating a meaningful opportunity to contest their designation and the Proclamation’s validity,” wrote Boasberg in the memorandum opinion issued Monday. “Otherwise, a finding of unlawful removal would be meaningless for Plaintiffs, who have already been sent back to Venezuela against their wishes and without due process.”
Counted among the plaintiffs were more than half of the roughly 250 Venezuelan nationals accused of ties to TdA that were deported to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison earlier in the year.
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. https://t.co/wLB8bYX0ql pic.twitter.com/Lu37vakgYh
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 22, 2025
“Expedited removal cannot be allowed to render this relief toothless,” insisted the judge. “If secretly spiriting individuals to another country were enough to neuter the Great Writ, then ‘the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action.'”
As had been reported in July, a three-way prisoner exchange saw some 250 Venezuelan nationals accused of ties to TdA returned to their home country in exchange for a number of political prisoners and American hostages held in Venezuela who were released to El Salvador and the United States.
Nayib Bukele announces major 3-way prisoner swap with Venezuela – freed Americans part of deal https://t.co/CuOHBh3dZI via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 19, 2025
Boasberg, whose ties to the FBI’s Operation Arctic Frost, the operation that involved spying on members of Congress, has prompted calls for his removal from the bench as well as for his arrest, set a Jan. 5, 2026 deadline for the administration to “facilitate the return of Plaintiffs to the United States or to otherwise provide them with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process.”
Celebrating the opinion from the judge, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt told The Hill in a statement, “After enduring months of torture, these men will finally get the due process they deserve, notwithstanding the Trump administration’s underhanded attempts to deny them any opportunity to contest the accusations that they are gang members.”
Meanwhile, the premise of Boasberg’s order to attempt to bring foreign nationals back into the country further fueled calls for his impeachment.
What is worse than an out of control tyrant in a black robe?
Politicians sitting on their thumbs letting his get away with it!— Mikey (@_MikeyLewis) December 23, 2025
A district court Judge is not the Commander-in-Chief.
“Habeas class actions” and class wide return orders are inventions untethered to the Constitution’s original meaning…. and they dangerously intrude on Article II authority over national security and foreign affairs.
This…
— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) December 23, 2025
What process does he think they were due? Also, how many times does he want to get slapped down on this.
— Matt Wright (@mattwr) December 23, 2025
Boasberg, who has been reversed by various appeals courts four separate times in this single case, is likely to be reversed again.
— Simon (@HoustonHizzoner) December 22, 2025
Why hasn’t he impeached yet? If Arctic Frost is true, this should have already happened in my lowly opinion. One would think he’d disqualify himself.
— Hard Questions (@1Hard_Question) December 23, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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