May 16, 2025
Federal Judge Tosses Military Border Crossing Charges
Timothy Birdnow
A federal judge hs dismissed most arrests in the Federal zone along the border with Mexico in yet another brazen effort to thwart the President's efforts to Make America Safe Again.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, the old saying goes, and these people KNEW they were committing a crime just by crossing the border without going through the proper entry points. This is utter bullshit from this judge.
I would point out that many people have been charged over the years with trespassing on military land, often on snowmobiles, and have actually gone to prison for doing so. They had no way of knowing they were tespassing at the time, but that was no excuse, the courts have said repeatedly. But if you are an illegal alien in the process of committing a crime anyway you get a free pass, apparently.
Something must be done to rein in this out-of-control judiciary.
A federal judge hs dismissed most arrests in the Federal zone along the border with Mexico in yet another brazen effort to thwart the President's efforts to Make America Safe Again.
The order from a federal magistrate judge, Gregory B. Wormuth, added to the confusion and legal turmoil that have gripped New Mexico in the month since President Trump declared a ribbon of land along the 180-mile length of the state’s southern border to be an Army base.
Around 400 migrants had been charged with willfully violating security regulations — misdemeanor charges that can carry up to a year in jail. The arrests, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was praising just last Friday, had swamped local jails and every day brought dozens of shackled migrants into a federal courtroom to face the novel charges.
"When you cross illegally, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mr. Hegseth said in a social-media message.
But Judge Wormuth, a former federal prosecutor, said the federal government had failed to show that the migrants actually knew they were unlawfully entering a restricted military area. He has dismissed charges against 98 migrants so far as he works through the docket.
"The United States provides no facts from which one could reasonably conclude that the Defendant knew he was entering” the New Mexico National Defense Area, the newly declared military installation, Judge Wormuth ruled.
Around 400 migrants had been charged with willfully violating security regulations — misdemeanor charges that can carry up to a year in jail. The arrests, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was praising just last Friday, had swamped local jails and every day brought dozens of shackled migrants into a federal courtroom to face the novel charges.
"When you cross illegally, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mr. Hegseth said in a social-media message.
But Judge Wormuth, a former federal prosecutor, said the federal government had failed to show that the migrants actually knew they were unlawfully entering a restricted military area. He has dismissed charges against 98 migrants so far as he works through the docket.
"The United States provides no facts from which one could reasonably conclude that the Defendant knew he was entering” the New Mexico National Defense Area, the newly declared military installation, Judge Wormuth ruled.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, the old saying goes, and these people KNEW they were committing a crime just by crossing the border without going through the proper entry points. This is utter bullshit from this judge.
I would point out that many people have been charged over the years with trespassing on military land, often on snowmobiles, and have actually gone to prison for doing so. They had no way of knowing they were tespassing at the time, but that was no excuse, the courts have said repeatedly. But if you are an illegal alien in the process of committing a crime anyway you get a free pass, apparently.
Something must be done to rein in this out-of-control judiciary.
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I certainly hope it can and will be done. It really has nothing to do with the law, after all; only the egos of various judges.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at May 16, 2025 11:18 PM (aL7f6)
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Ego and paying political dents Dana. No question.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at May 17, 2025 07:43 AM (q4mxm)
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