Anti-Trump judge demands president fetch 100 illegal alien criminals from overseas jail
A longtime anti-Trump federal judge who previously ordered the president to turn jets around midair and return illegal alien criminals to the United States and also facilitated Jack Smith’s search into the telephone records of sitting U.S. senators in his failed Arctic Frost investigation, now has told the White House to “facilitate” the return of 100 illegal alien criminals already in jail in other countries.
“The court will now order the government to facilitate the return from third countries of those plaintiffs who so desire,” claimed Judge James Boasberg of Washington.
“It will also permit other plaintiffs to file their habeas supplements from aboard.”
The issue is over the “due process” that illegal alien criminals are given when they are arrested and deported.
As part of President Donald Trump’s border enforcement and immigration scofflaw crackdown, a number of those people were arrested and deported to other countries’ jails.
Boasberg now says Trump has to fetch them and give them “due process,” a move that the White House already has confirmed is problematic.
At issue are about 137 Venezuelans who were flown last year to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
El Salvador officials previously have confirmed their jurisdiction over those cases now.
WorldNetDaily previously reported that the White House filed a statement with the court system that if Boasberg tries to demand the return of the Venezuelans, the case will be advanced to a higher court with no delay.
According to a PJMedia report, “For over a year, President Donald Trump’s team has tangled with activist judges who act as if they run the executive branch. These activists in black robes think they can dictate policy on border security, national defense, and pretty much everything the executive branch does. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has become the poster child for this judicial overreach. Last week, the Trump administration finally decided it had enough of his illegitimate orders, and told him, in so many words, to pound sand.”
The administration’s promise was that it would seek to move the case to higher courts, out of the hands of Boasberg, whose rulings attacking Trump’s actions previously have been overturned.
Boasberg, who publicly has fretted that the White House will not do exactly as he wants, has been told in a court filing from the Department of Justice that the administration believes there is no further due process due the illegal alien criminals who were deported.
Explained the report, “Past presidents such as Barack Obama were never forced to abide by the conditions left-wing judges are now imposing on Trump. When Obama exercised prosecutorial discretion on immigration, deferring removal proceedings for specific categories of aliens, it wasn’t controversial. But when Trump tries to deport alleged gang members who pose a national security threat, suddenly judges think they can dictate every detail of how the executive branch operates.”
Boasberg has been the subject of impeachment discussions as well as the target of an ethics complaint filed by the DOJ, even though another federal judge protected him in that fight.
Boasberg has established a long history of antagonism toward Trump, from his participation in various Democrat lawfare cases in recent years to his more recent attempts to block Trump from enforcing laws to secure the American border and remove from its shores criminal illegal aliens.
According to Fox News, the Justice Department has pointed out to Boasberg that the White House does not control El Salvador or its prison system, and cannot return the criminal to the U.S. to comply with Boasberg’s demands.
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump must return more than 100 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act last spring. https://t.co/BgGE0dm0sH
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 12, 2026
JUST IN: Judge BOASBERG has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelan men illegally deported under the Alien Enemies Act and who are currently in countries other than Venezuela. https://t.co/mpLgN8Wi2W pic.twitter.com/aj88O6ijCh
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 12, 2026
Federal judges who use their position to advance a political agenda should be immediately removed from the bench.
I have legislation to remove Judge Boasberg for failing to remain in good behavior.
Americans demand America First priorities, and Congress must deliver. pic.twitter.com/C61XHWiXNF
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) February 4, 2026
Boasberg already has been described by an official with the Department of Justice as a “threat to the rule of law.”
Further, the Federalist has revealed Boasberg complained to the U.S. Supreme Court that he was concerned about a constitutional “crisis” if President Trump declined to do exactly as Boasberg wants.
And Boasberg also was at the center of activism before President Trump’s first term when Trump was under attack in the fabricated Russiagate conspiracy theory launched by the Hillary Clinton campaign and others with lies about Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
Another judge protected Boasberg when the DOJ filed an ethics complaint against him.