The federal judge who tried to block President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts has a history of stonewalling Trump’s immigration policies and spared one of the FBI officials behind the Russiagate hoax from prison.
United States District Judge James Boasberg placed a 14-day restraining order on Trump’s effort to rapidly deport criminal illegal aliens associated with Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang and foreign terror organization, prompting public outcry and igniting an effort to impeach him from his seat.
Boasberg, an Obama appointee, hindered Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts in 2018 with a ruling that limited the administration’s ability to detain migrant families who had entered the country.
The judge’s ruling took aim at five Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, preventing them from categorically denying parole to foreign nationals and…