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Page B1From§Eachthe breakfast edition — 24 September 2026

Court bars Trump from sending a Peruvian migrant to Ghana, fourteen days after barring him from your ballot.

By SalStaff Writer

“Senate Democrats, minus Fetterman, urge Hegseth to provide receipt for Iran war costs”, 17 September 2026 (Photo via The Hill — the original report)

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The policy is called third-party country removal, which sounds like something you decline at a rental counter. This week it meant ICE attempted to send a Peruvian migrant to Ghana. Not Peru, where the man is from. Ghana. On the 24th the First Circuit formally struck the policy down.

Stop looking at the map and look at the courthouse, because that panel has been busy. On September 10th the same First Circuit refused to let the administration reinstate an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterms, calling the order likely unlawful and pointing at the Constitution's elections clause, which hands the states the running of their own elections, with Congress watching. The same circuit that day upheld Judge Indira Talwani's block stopping the Postal Service from carrying that order out. The Supreme Court is still considering it. So: one circuit, fourteen days, two rulings. Your ballot, and a man's continent.…

…(cont) Back up to August 28th and a different courthouse. Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied, for the third time, the president's bid to move his New York hush-money conviction into federal court, where the presidential immunity argument was supposed to live. That denial turned on timing — the bid came too late — and not on whether the argument holds up. The president vowed a powerful appeal. Count the number of these that were settled by the branch nobody had to sue: zero.

The thread here is the ask, and the ask keeps coming back in a new costume. Let us pick which country a person belongs in. Let us set the terms on how the mail gets counted. Let us move a state conviction into a friendlier room. Every one of them is a request to be excused from the body that normally decides who goes where and whose ballot gets opened.

And notice what got funded. You will be told, again this fall, that the government is broke, that the thing your kid's school asked for is not in the budget, that everyone has to be realistic. This same government located the staff, the lawyers, the paperwork and the flight authority to attempt to put one Peruvian man into a country that is not his. There's money. There's always money. It is simply never for the thing with your name on it.

A court is not a plan. It's a brake, and a brake holds only while somebody keeps their weight on it — appeals, lawyers, a docket, a Supreme Court that hasn't ruled yet on the mail. Three rulings since August 28th. Two courthouses. One direction. The man is still here, because a court said so, which is a thin thing to be standing on and is currently the only thing standing.

“They tried to send a guy from Peru to Ghana, and the only reason he's not gone is that a judge in Boston happened to be paying attention. That's the same court that had to tell them two weeks ago to keep their hands off the mail ballots, and there's a judge in New York who's now said no three times to moving a conviction out of state court. Nobody's broke when it's a removal flight — they're only broke when it's your school, and the thing keeping any of it in check is a docket and three rulings.”
Sal
“Third-party country removal is a routine enforcement tool that every — did I say tool? That doesn't sound like me. Look, one circuit ruled, one circuit, and the New York judge ruled on timing, not the merits, which if you read it correctly is barely a ruling at all, and the Supreme Court hasn't weighed in on the mail order, so really nothing has been decided, except the parts that have.”
Chip

Earlier in this story

The receipts

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