Judge Orders US Government to Pay for Deportees' Flights Back to US; Trump Voter Roll Request Gets Blocked
Facts Matter
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A D.C. judge has just ordered the Trump administration to pay for the return flights of deported illegal immigrants so they can stand trial in the United States. Meanwhile, in a separate case, a judge in Michigan has just denied the Trump administration’s request to obtain the voter rolls in that state. Let’s go through the details of both cases together.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, and today let's do a bit of a roundup of some of the most important but underreported |
| 0:05.6 | stories happening across the country. Starting with a new order from a Washington, D.C. judge |
| 0:11.7 | requiring the U.S. government to fly deported Venezuelans back to America. |
| 0:18.2 | Quote, a federal judge in Washington has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate |
| 0:22.7 | the return of Venezuelans who he said should receive a hearing after their deportation under the |
| 0:28.5 | Alien Enemies Act. Now, for your reference here, the judge in question is Judge James Bosberg, |
| 0:34.0 | who has been, I guess you can say, fighting with President Trump regarding these deportations |
| 0:38.9 | for the better part of a year now. If you remember, Judge Bozberg was the one who late last |
| 0:44.4 | year ordered the Trump administration to stop deportations mid-flight. He was also the judge |
| 0:50.2 | who happened to have signed the subpoenas and the non-disclosure orders as a part of the FBI's |
| 0:55.8 | Arctic Frost investigation under the Biden administration. That was when the FBI was basically |
| 1:03.1 | secretly collecting intelligence on sitting members of Congress in their very broad January 6th |
| 1:10.6 | investigations. Now, the Department of Justice, as well as |
| 1:14.9 | several President Trump-aligned members of Congress, they've actually been trying to either |
| 1:20.4 | this bar and or impeach Judge Boasberg, but thus far to no avail. The DOJ misconduct complaint |
| 1:27.1 | against them. It was dismissed in December of |
| 1:29.5 | 2025, and the impeachment effort against him has pretty much stalled out in the house. And as such, |
| 1:36.1 | Judge Boesberg is still the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. |
| 1:40.9 | And as such, here's specifically what he said in his latest ruling regarding these |
| 1:45.2 | deported Venezuelans. |
| 1:46.8 | Quote, Judge James Bosberg wrote in his February 12th ruling that the government must |
| 1:51.2 | parole those deportees into U.S. custody if they present themselves at a port of entry |
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