We won this round
Imagine the following scenario: You’re at a red light when there is banging on your window. Then, the window is shattered. You find yourself confronted by people who are with ICE. They cuff you. You are taken to a cell. There, you wait in limbo, unable to understand what has happened and what will happen.
Then you are taken to an airport and escorted onto the tarmac. You hear the whirr of the engine and find yourself escorted onto a plane — a small plane with no windows. You are told you’re being taken out of the country, but not where you’re going.
The plane taxis down the runway with you in it — and takes off — to who knows where… That is what the Trump administration has been doing to so many. However, they won’t be able to do it to many Venezuelan men in immigration custody because the Supreme Court stepped in and blocked them. It happened in the dead of night. 12:55 AM, to be exact.
The ACLU has been in court after court, trying to prevent the Trump team from vanishing more people. For now, they succeeded. The ruling stunned many. It was 7-2. Predictably, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
The fact that ultra-conservative Gorsuch and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals is quite something, and that something does not bode well for the Trump administration. “The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of the court.”
We won this round. I suspect the extremes, like other Judges, are disgusted, angry, and fed up with the chaos Mr. Trump has caused. Back to what I spoke about at the beginning. The TERROR these people must feel, as they’re treated like—like some PACKAGE, some PACKAGE, treated like nothing or nobody human, thrown carelessly like cargo onto some distant plane to be “vanished.” Only this time, we won the battle. The war, however, is still waiting to be fought.
