Kaddour-Cherif is understood to have entered the UK legally on a visit visa in 2019, but overstayed and was in the early stages of the deportation process. He was sentenced to an 18-month community order and placed on the sex offenders' register for five years. The Metropolitan Police said the criminal had a six-day head start after he was freed from the medium security jail last Wednesday, but the force was only informed at 1pm on Tuesday.
Now, the government is seeking to convince a New York appeals court that the tool, a habeas corpus petition, should be generally off-limits in such cases, arguing that it runs afoul of American immigration law. If the U.S. argument is successful, noncitizens detained by the administration and placed in immigration proceedings could lose one of the most dependable methods of challenging their detention.
Trump also ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to find a case that could challenge the Johnson decision. It further instructs her to "prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible," and gives her a pass to charge retroactive flag-burners with other crimes, such as disturbing the peace or breaking environmental laws. The text also commands Trump's cabal of White House lackeys to flag (lol) and detain any immigrants accused of the behavior,