Granted, it took a whole two months, but at long last, one of these black-robed mini-tyrants…threw the race card.
Although not over what you might have imagined, like deporting illegals who are foreigners is racist.
Nope.
Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee from Northern California, has decided that ‘America First is what’s racist and so those Venezuelans aren’t going anywhere if it’s up to him.
Which he’s decided it is.
President Trump’s immigration policy, like most of his foreign policy, is saturated with references to his campaign slogan “America First,” and a federal judge this week said it shows illegal and racist “animus” toward immigrants.
Judge Edward Chen blocked the Department of Homeland Security from revoking a special deportation amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants, at least in part because Secretary Kristi Noem justified the decision by citing Mr. Trump’s “America First” agenda.
Judge Chen, an Obama appointee to the court in Northern California, said the term had an “inference of animus given the historical connotation of that phrase.”
Hang on a minute, said the Trump attorney.
Are you out of your mind?
…“President Trump’s commitment to putting Americans and America First has only to do with his love for our country and our citizens, not animus against anyone else,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Washington Times.
With an excruciating eye for detail, Judge Chen made his case that President Trump, and by extension, his DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have shown nothing but continued ‘racial animus’ towards Venezuelans.
So, since Trump can’t talk nice about illegal border jumpers and ‘immigrants’ brought into this country under shady, jury-rigged Biden schemes, that means the Venezuelans should be able to stay. Even if Trump was talking about actual criminal Venezuelan gangs in Colorado terrorizing…*checks note*…AMERICAN CITIZENS, that’s just too damn bad, yo.
…This term, Judge Chen cited Mr. Trump’s outlandish campaign claims of Haitian migrants eating dogs, his and Ms. Noem’s claims that Venezuela emptied its prisons and mental institutions to send people to the U.S., a heavily challenged claim that Venezuelan gang members took over an apartment complex in Colorado, and calling gang members “animals” and “dirtbags.”
Judge Chen cited an Axios analysis that found Mr. Trump’s public remarks over 13 months during the run-up to the November election referred to Venezuelan “criminals” at least 70 times.
Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney for the National TPS Alliance, which brought the case, said that evidence proved overwhelming for the judge in finding racist motives behind Mr. Trump’s TPS decisions.
Trump is racist, racist, racist. Everyone knows that.
‘He’s made racism fashionable again.’
James O’Brien reflects on past calls with Trump supporters and posits that they’ve been ‘conned’ into backing him because he’s ‘given a green light to their bigotry.’ pic.twitter.com/kDpL6GZNyv
— LBC (@LBC) April 3, 2025
And Judge Edward Chen is here to put a stop to it.
Besides, it’s not like he hasn’t tried before.
WAIT, WHUT
Oh, yes. Judge Chen and the president go way back. All the way back to ‘third world, s**thole countries’ days, when Hizzoner blocked an earlier 2018 Trump attempt to close down the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program partially due to Trump’s ‘racial animus.’
A federal judge blocked the administration’s attempt to cancel legal status for migrants from four countries, ruling Wednesday that President Trump poisoned the decision-making by calling them “s—hole” countries.
The ruling means hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan, who were going to be forced to return to their home countries, can remain in the U.S. under special humanitarian protections.
Though the decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status was made by Homeland Security, Judge Edward M. Chen, an Obama appointee to the bench, ruled that the White House put pressure on the department.
And he ruled that since Mr. Trump and his aides appear to have shown racial animus toward third world countries, that pressure likely distorted the decision-making process in unfair ways, meaning the entire policy must be put on hold while he sorts it out.
“Because there is evidence that President Trump and/or the White House influenced the DHS on the TPS decisions to at least raise serious question on the merits, the remaining issue is whether there is evidence that President Trump harbors an animus against non-white, non- European aliens which influenced his (and thereby the secretary’s) decision to end the TPS designation,” he ruled. “As plaintiffs have catalogued, there is evidence of such as reflected by statements made by President Trump before, during, and after the TPS decision-making process.”
Chen was probably curled up like Shelob in her cave – blinking in the dark, drooling, and stroking her hairy legs while waiting for a drunk orc to stumble in.
This guy is an absolute peach and a dogged, determined Trumpian obstructionist.
I’ll bet he has his TDS card laminated or maybe even sent away for one of those snazzy plated ones.
Senators have bestirred themselves to act as if they were willing to do something to rein this continued judicial interference in the executive branch. As one wag on X said earlier, there are something like 677 federal judges out there and it’s as if Trump has to check with every last one of then to blow his nose.
this wk a fed judge in California halted President Trump’s immigration policies (ENDING TPS) nationwide using admin procedure act Only my judicial relief clarification act would put an end to this abuse Nowhere in the constitution does it say judges can legislate from the bench
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) April 3, 2025
We’ll see.
It’s just one more thing to dump on SCOTUS when all this comes to a head.
