Judge denies COVID-related request to release illegal immigrants from family detention facilitieshttps://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/judge-declines-request-release-people-family-immigration-detentionFederal Judge James Boasberg on Wednesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction to release people currently held at several family immigration detention facilities.
In his ruling in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the judge refused the request that the detainees be released due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Petitioners, fearful as we all are of contracting a novel and dangerous disease, understandably swing for the fences in seeking wholesale release," the judge wrote. "Those fences are high and hard to clear, however, as Petitioners must demonstrate that no court-ordered remedy other than their release will do," Boasberg said.
This is not a decision on the case itself. It does mean, however, that the judge does not rate their chances of winning so high as to warrant a pre-trial injunction.
This lawsuit is using Covid-19 as the latest faux-pretext to release illegals out "into the wild" where finding them again would be difficult ... and their chances of getting infected are definitely non-zero.
