So... This Has Been A Federal Class Action For Now Almost EIGHT Years... And ICE/Border Patrol Claims It Cannot Identify Who Is Covered?! Damn.

The able USDC Judge Sabraw, as I noted last week, entered an order -- clearly within his authority to administer the settlement (which Trump signed in 2018) -- to get the names and ID numbers of all the approximately 8,000 people that ICE knows are members of this class. The judge imposed a ten day deadline, so that peoples' rights would not lapse -- due to the government dragging its feet, ever since Tangerine occupied 1600 Penn, for a second term.

The churlish Noem / Rubio / Miller / Trump lawyers now say it is a "manifest injustice" for the Judge to order that list be produced. Injustice?! These human beings are being held in cages. Over 8,000 of them.

And ICE cannot even be bothered to print out a list of who all they are. . . holding?! These people are. . . monsters. They claim (without any factual basis) that even producing a list with 8,000 names. . . must be done by hand. And so it will take five months. That's preposterous. We have SEEN them using bar code scanners on the asylum seekers in custody, with our own eyes -- at the Southern Border (all of whom wear ID wristbands). Just print out that -- on an excel spreadsheet -- from all that scan data, you idiots.

No one is buying your malign malarkey -- least of all the able USDC Judge Dana Sabraw (he will give you a short extension, but you'll produce the list by the end of August, ole' Kristi). Here's the stupid claim, by the Noemites:

. . .Based on its understanding of its internal procedures and operational capabilities at this time, ICE estimates that production of the list would take “at least five (5) months.” See Second Supplemental Decl. Byoung Park ¶ 2, 5. Ten days is not a realistic deadline, given the logistical challenges that Plaintiffs failed to account for when they proposed it. . . .

The stoopid -- it burns. Even under the Geneva Convention, such a list was always required -- of PoWs [and that's been extended, under Bush 43 to include. . . enemy combatants and the like]. And we all know this is just another bad faith stalling tactic.

Throw the book at them, Judge Sabraw! Out.

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