"US judge in Texas orders release of Venezuelan couple, temporarily blocks deportations"

This is the headline from an article from USA Today dated 04/26/25 with a byline from Jonathan Limehouse.

Crumb the 1st came to court with nothing but innuendo and "it's secret so we can't tell you" as supposed evidence to support their allegations against the couple. Thankfully the judge wasn't having it. In fact he got so fed up with the government lawyers he didn't even let them give a closing. Here is an excerpt from the USA Today article regarding the judge:

"Briones' ruling says the allegations against the couple are based on “multiple levels of hearsay, hidden within declarations of declarants who have no personal knowledge about the facts they are attesting to.”

I dug deeper into other sources regarding the hearing and found these excerpts from two other sites:

"At the hearing, the charges based against Ms. Sanchez Garcia were principally based on her supposed “confession” to arresting officers that she was once married to a member of Tren de Argua, that she separated from him about ten years ago, and that her ex-husband was eventually killed by the Venezuelan government as a result of his gang membership. Plus, the government argued, it had secret “intelligence” evidence supporting her membership (which it would not share with the court). As to Mr. Sanchez Puentes, the government’s case — amazingly -- consisted of: “well, he chose to marry and have kids with Ms. Sanchez Garcia. So, he must be Tren de Aragua too.”

It is little wonder that Crumb The 1st , Homan, Noem, Rubio and Bondi want people quickly swept out of the country before they can have hearings. The judge was clearly not having this crap pass as "evidence" and here is another excerpt from the judge:

"“This Court takes clear offense to [the Government] wasting judicial resources to admit to the Court that it has no evidence.”

When it came to the portion of the decision regarding the Ms. Sanchez Garcia the judge really kicked into high gear:

" Respondents and the Government based the entirety of their case on multiple levels of hearsay, hidden within declarations of declarants who have no personal knowledge about the facts they are attesting to. These declarants are not the ones who interviewed Petitioner Sanchez Garcia, and they are not the ones who captured her allegedly incriminating statement on March 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C., and are not the ones who collected “intelligence” and generated reports that contain “highly reliable and verified” information. Further these declarants are not the ones who conducted interviews of law enforcement informants who allegedly identified Petitioner Sanchez Garcia as a Member of TdA. What is astonishing is that these declarants cannot even so much identify what government official did receive the alleged information directly. Respondents ask this Court to accept their claims, going off of nearly nothing, to substantiate their mammoth claim that Petitioner Sanchez Garcia is a “senior member,” or perhaps just a “member,” or maybe at least an “affiliate” of TdA. The Court would not accept this evidence even in a case where only nominal damages were at stake, let alone what is at stake here.

Beyond these shoddy affidavits and contradictory testimony, [the Government] haven’t provided “membership” at all as it relates to Petitioner Sanchez Garcia. Respondents have not demonstrated to this Court by a “preponderance of the evidence,” let alone the required “clear, unequivocal, and convincing”evidence, that Petitioner Sanchez Garcia is a member of TdA, nor that she is an “alien enemy” within the meaning of the TdA Proclamation. This Court is in complete agreement with Judge Brinkema’s characterization of [the Government’s] evidence at a previous hearing: “Respondents don’t have it. It’s not here.”

Here is a bottom line for the ruling of Judge Briones:

"Judge Briones ordered that the two petitioners be released from prison, enjoined the Government from re-detaining petitioners while their TPS status remained in place, ordered the Government to provide 30 day notice, in an understandable language, of any subsequent attempt to re-detain petitioners, and — notably — enjoined the Government from removing any non-citizen from Texas or the U.S. on the basis of Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, unless and until individual hearings are made available."

Now whether Crumb The 1st and his American Gestapo will follow the court order is anybody's guess. Will they now try to find some weasel way to still grab this couple and swiftly load them on a plane and then claim it's out of their hands? Stay tuned. It should be noted that there have been previous hearings the couple was subjected to and in those other hearings the 3 different judges also found that there was no evidence. Their attorney Chris Benoit said in a statement:

“Cesar and Norelia have now gone in front of four different judges, none of whom thought they should be detained," Benoit said in his statement. "They have deep ties to their community. They have three minor children. They have Temporary Protected Status. And they have been living peacefully in the United States since 2022."

Multiple times of being harassed and pretty much ignoring the findings of 4 different judges. It tells us that this is likely not going to be the last time.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/26/texas-judge-venezuela-deportation-tren-de-aragua/83298669007/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/28/2319342/-Judge-Rips-Government-For-Lack-Of-Any-Evidence-In-First-Due-Process-Case-Under-Alien-Enemies-Act?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/04/27/texas-el-paso-judge-david-briones-venezuela-immigrants-deportation-tren-de-aragua-gang/83312048007/