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From Fox News: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can continue using a Seattle airport for chartered deportation flights in a win for incoming President-elect Trump’s administration, a federal appeals court ruled.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling rejected a 2019 local executive order that sought to counter then-President Trump’s immigration policies, saying that King County, Washington violated its contract by prohibiting deportations at King County International Airport, which is also known as Boeing Field.
The court ruled that the order was unlawful because it discriminated against ICE and targeted federal operations. In 2019, Trump used Boeing Fields to deport illegal migrants from the U.S. and the local county sought to block the president’s removal operations.
The court’s ruling, dated Friday, Nov. 29, recognized that the local 2019 order had forced ICE to use an airport in Yakima, Washington — a much longer drive from ICE’s Northwest detention center — for the deportation flights.
As a result, operations costs were greater, and security concerns were also increased.
In 2020, ICE had sued King County over the order, on the basis that it violated the terms of a World War II-era contract that guarantees the federal government’s right to use the airport along with discriminating against ICE.
9th Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress wrote in Friday’s ruling, “this is not a situation in which King County officials are being conscripted into carrying out federal immigration laws on the federal government’s behalf. Instead, the United States is asking King County, in its capacity as the owner of a public airport facility, to lift a discriminatory prohibition on private parties’ ability to engage in business with the federal government that supports federal immigration efforts.”
President-elect Trump has vowed to re-start deportations as soon as he returns to office.
BORDER BATTLE: An appeals court ruled ICE can continue using a Seattle airport for migrant deportation flights after the local county tried to block them from happening. https://t.co/nXLjGVKQr2 pic.twitter.com/nZmRllIZQQ
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