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Secretary John Roberts agreed on Monday to suspend a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was accidentally deported to an infamous Salvador prison.
The temporary order comes hours after the Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, and claimed that US District Judge Paula Sinis had stepped over her authority when she ordered. Kilmer Abrego Garcia I returned to the US.
The administration acknowledged that Abrego Garcia should not be sent to El Salvador as it determined that he was likely to face persecution by local gangs.
However, he is no longer in US detention, and the administration argued that the government has no way of regaining him.
Xinis gave the administration until just before midnight to “promote and influence” the return of Abrego Garcia.
The Salvador prison guard escorts were recently deported by the US government and imprisoned in the Centre of Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) prison, and this sequence image was obtained on March 31 as part of an agreement with Tecolca in El Salvador.
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“The district court injunction requires Abrego Garcia to be released from foreign sovereign detention and return to the United States by midnight Monday — is patently illegal,” Attorney General D. John Sawer cast the order, saying, “There was no major illegal injunction.”
The Justice Department appeal was directed at Roberts to handle an appeal from Maryland.
The Trump administration separately asks the Supreme Court to resume deportation of Venezuelan immigrants who were accused of being gang members in the same Salvador prison under 18th century wartime law.
A federal court of appeals in Richmond, Virginia denied the administration’s request for stay. “There’s no doubt that the government has been ruined here,” Judge J. Harvey Wilkinson wrote in a simple opinion that comes with the unanimous denial.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy speaks when he announced immigration enforcement actions at his first press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., USA.
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The White House described Abrego Garcia’s deportation as “administrative error,” but also threw members of the MS-13 gang at him. Abrego Garcia’s lawyer said there was no evidence that he was on MS-13.
“An administrative agency must not seize an individual from the street, deposit it in a foreign prison in violation of court orders, or call a separation of power to isolate illegal actions from judicial scrutiny,” wrote Abrego Garcia’s lawyer in an answer submitted the moment Roberts issued his temporary pose.
Xinis writes that the decision to arrest him and send him to El Salvador appears to be “completely lawless,” with little or no evidence supporting the allegations “a vague, radically unplanted.” Abrego Garcia He was once a member of the MS-13.
Abrego Garciaa 29-year-old Salvador citizen who has never been charged or convicted of a crime was detained and deported last month by immigration agents.
He was a sheet metal apprentice who received permission from DHS to work legally in the United States and pursued Journeyman’s license, his lawyer said. His wife is a US citizen.
In 2019, an immigration judge banned the United States from deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
Justice Department lawyers confirmed at a court hearing that Abrego Garcia should not be deported. Attorney General Pam Bondy He then removed his lawyer, Elles Roubeni, from the lawsuit and placed him on leave.
