Summary:
With just hours to go before the Trump administration has to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime authority — back to the United States as part of a judge’s order, the Justice Department has tossed up a “Hail Mary” bid to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to put the kibosh on the efforts.
“On Friday afternoon, a federal district judge in Maryland ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the DOJ’s Supreme Court application to vacate the order.
“This order sets the United States up for failure,” Sauer said.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted a preliminary injunction and gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of President Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations — which have since been blocked by a federal judge — without providing due process to those being flown out of the country, often not to their country of origin. Abrego Garcia was in the country with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.
On Sunday, Xinis issued a 22-page opinion saying she would not back off from forcing the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who are being sued, to return Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. The DOJ filed an emergency motion to stay Xinis’ preliminary injunction on Saturday with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and lower court, “given the urgency of harms to the government,” the DOJ filings said. The 4th Circuit denied the motion on Monday shortly before the DOJ filed its Supreme Court application.
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JusticeInjusticeThe government’s argument that it’s unreasonable to expect them to be able to get him back in a timely manner calls into question what they were thinking when they started the practice in the first place.
I mean, obviously it’s evil and they’re evil. But did they seriously never consider that they might fuck it up at some point and have to try to take someone back? They’re denying people due process, of course they were going to fuck it up at some point. That’s kind of the point of what they’re doing, is carrying out injustice. Then again, what do they care for morality? And when the king commands it, is it really illegal?
That were never coming back that was the point. Put them in a hole and then throw away the hole
People do not make it in El Salvador. They were sentenced to a death camp as soon as they boarded that plane
Them returning at any point means they can testify with the truth. This way, they can just lie about it
This is the definition of racism. We need another civil rights movement.
