A far-left Obama-appointed judge is STILL trying to force the Trump administration to return to the U.S. a group of deported illegal alien criminals, who were sent to El Salvador and then later returned to their own country of Venezuela.
The judge claims the Venezuelans were “illegally deported.”
From The Hill: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a federal judge he is unable to locate the more than 100 Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador, arguing against further hearings with the men as it would jeopardize “extraordinarily delicate” discussions with Venezuela’s new leadership.
Rubio’s declaration, filed Monday night, is a remarkable pushback from the secretary after the Trump administration was ordered to facilitate the return of the men, who have since been released to Venezuela as part of a July prisoner exchange.
The December ruling from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg noted that before they were flown out of the country amid a court hearing challenging their removal, the men had sought a court order to bar their deportation.
He said the government had “secretly spirited away” the men, defying their right to due process and to make their case for why they should be able to remain in the country, including to seek asylum and challenge allegations of gang membership.
In a declaration to the court on Monday, Rubio stated that any further hearings on the matter “would risk material damage to U.S. foreign policy interests in Venezuela.”
“The United States remains involved to see changes in Venezuela that are beneficial to the United States and that it also expects will be beneficial for the people of Venezuela, who have suffered tremendously,” Rubio said in the statement. “These efforts entail ongoing, intensive, and extraordinarily delicate engagement with elements within the regime of Maduro’s successor, so-called Acting President Delcy Rodríguez.”
JUST IN: Rubio tells Judge Boasberg that there’s no way to retrieve the 137 Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act — or even offer them due process — given the delicate negotiations with Venezuela’s new post-Maduro regime. https://t.co/von1nuev2x pic.twitter.com/UeRNWvNVJA
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 13, 2026
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