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LA Times: Trump’s lawyers add new legal hurdles for Maryland man who was wrongly deported

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President Trump’s lawyers have set a new legal hurdle before the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Even if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is returned to the United States, he will be held as an illegal immigrant can be deported again because he is member of a foreign criminal gang, they said.

The uncompromising statement presented to a Maryland judge echoed the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday.

U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi insisted Abrego Garcia will not be allowed to enter or remain in this country. “He’s not a Maryland man. He’s part of foreign terrorist organization. He’s a member of MS-13,” she said.

Real leaders know how to admit when they’ve made a mistake, suck it up, apologize, and move on.

Sadly, real leadership is utterly lacking in Washington today.

Trump’s lawyers add new legal hurdles for Maryland man who was wrongly deported
Even if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is returned to the U.S., he will be held for deportation again because he is member of a foreign criminal gang, Trump’s lawyers told a judge.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/trump-s-lawyers-add-new-legal-hurdles-for-maryland-man-who-was-wrongly-deported/ar-AA1D3gNn

Daily Beast: Trump DOJ Flips Off SCOTUS in Brazen Update on Deported Dad

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A senior department official stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained under the sovereign authority of El Salvador.

The Trump administration is continuing to seemingly do everything it can to avoid securing the safe return of 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month due to an “administrative error”.

After declining to provide any information on how it would facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. on Friday, senior State Department official Michael G. Kozak signed a declaration on Saturday swearing that while Abrego Garcia was “alive and secure” in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, he is also “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”

In addition, President Donald Trump posted a message to his Truth Social late Saturday that appears to confirm the U.S. is essentially wiping its hands of anyone deported to El Salvador. He wrote, “These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign Nation, and their future is up to President B and his Government.”

Trump DOJ Flips Off SCOTUS in Brazen Update on Deported Dad
A senior department official stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained under the sovereign authority of El Salvador.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doj-flips-off-scotus-in-brazen-update-on-deported-dad

Daily Beast: Trump’s DOJ Brazenly Defies Judge’s Orders on Wrongly Deported Dad

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Government attorneys argued they should have more time to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

The Trump administration said it would not provide information on how it will get a wrongly deported Maryland dad home by a Friday morning deadline because the timeframe a judge imposed was “impracticable.”

In effect, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is openly defying a court order that requires it to provide details about 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and how he will be brought back stateside.

Abrego Garcia was flown to a mega prison in El Salvador last month due to an “administrative error.” Despite the DOJ admitting its mistake, it argued it did not have the authority to bring Abrego Garcia home because he was now in the custody of El Salvador.

Maryland District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, disagreed and ruled that Abrego Garcia must be returned stateside, where he has an American wife and child and was working legally as a sheet metal apprentice prior to being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during what he believed to be a routine traffic stop.

The issue reached the Supreme Court on Thursday. The high court, which has a conservative majority, ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must take steps to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia.

Trump’s DOJ Brazenly Defies Judge’s Orders on Wrongly Deported Dad
Government attorneys argued they should have more time to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doj-refuses-to-comply-with-judges-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia

Associated Press: Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man

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The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.

The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had ordered Abrego Garcia, now being held in a notorious Salvadoran prison, returned to the United States by midnight Monday.

“The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the court said in an unsigned order with no noted dissents.

King Donald has been slapped down 9-0!

Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man
U.S. District Judge had ordered Abrego Garcia, now being held in a notorious Salvadoran prison, returned to the United States by midnight Monday.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-maryland-deportation-trump-9f46dd62890befdc321ed1ab56107470

Rolling Stone: Judge to Trump: Yes, You Really Do Have to Undo ‘Lawless’ Deportation to El Salvador

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The judge overseeing the case of a Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador has reiterated that the Trump administration must return him to the U.S.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, along with hundreds of other deportees from the U.S., is being held in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), which District Court Judge Paula Xinis described as “one of the most notoriously inhumane and dangerous prisons in the world” that keeps people “in some of the most inhumane and squalid conditions known in any carceral system.”

“The officers had no warrant for his arrest and no lawful basis to take him into custody; they told him only that his ‘status had changed,'” Xinis wrote in her order issued Friday, which was obtained by Politico.

Judge to Trump: Yes, You Really Do Have to Undo ‘Lawless’ Deportation to El Salvador
“His detention appears wholly lawless,” Judge Paula Xinis wrote

Judge to Trump: Yes, You Really Do Have to Undo ‘Lawless’ Deportation to El Salvador