The Trump administration says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported and despatched to El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Heart, is alive.
“He’s alive and safe in that facility. He’s detained pursuant to the sovereign, home authority of El Salvador,” Michael G. Kozak, a senior official within the State Division’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs wrote in a submitting to a federal choose, NPR experiences.
None of that issues, although. On Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador visited the White Home and sat within the Oval Workplace and instructed everybody in attendance that the concept that he would ship Abrego Garcia — who just isn’t a member of a gang, and has dedicated no crimes — again from one of the crucial infamous prisons on this planet is “preposterous.”
When requested by a reporter if he deliberate on returning Abrego Garica — who was by no means convicted of an precise crime — Bukele stated, “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the USA? In fact I’m not going to do it. The query is preposterous.”
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you intend to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the USA? In fact I am not going to do it. The query is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick folks pic.twitter.com/y2FhtZsAhL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2025
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So now a Salvadoran man residing legally in the USA is a terrorist? Abrego Garcia is a risk to America? We’re moving into very harmful territory. Both the USA instructed El Salvador that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist, or they inferred it on their very own. Both manner, it’s maddening the lengths to which this administration and people aiding them will go to not solely ignore the regulation but additionally trample on folks’s rights.
It’s mindboggling to suppose that that is the place we’re, however as a result of I’ve seen all episodes of 24 (I even watched the Black model which ought to’ve been known as “deuce fo,”) and noticed Stephen Miller’s hairline disappear and then reappear on nationwide tv solely to vanish once more, I don’t belief something this administration says and I’m going to wish to see proof of life.
NPR notes that the Trump administration’s submitting was a response to federal choose Paula Xinis’ order that the administration present each day updates on what they’re doing to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S.
The Supreme Court docket upheld Xinis’s ruling that Abrego Garcia be returned as a result of he ought to’ve by no means been deported. Xinis “additionally ordered the Justice Division to supply a direct replace on his location and standing, the steps the federal government has taken thus far to convey Abrego Garcia again and what further actions it’s contemplating.”
That is why issues have been sketchy for any of us who’ve watched “Dateline.” For some purpose, the Trump administration retains arguing the legality of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation as a substitute of simply bringing him residence.
These detentions are along side the El Salvadorian authorities, so the U.S. and El Salvador are working collectively. In case you can say with certainty that Abrego Garcia is alive, then somebody contained in the Trump administration would’ve needed to have spoken with somebody within the El Salvadorian jail and the way arduous would it not be to say, “We’d like you to ship one again”?
As an alternative, the Trump administration has requested for extra time to grasp the Supreme Court docket ruling earlier than deciding its subsequent steps. In the meantime, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has lived in Maryland for some 15 years and was given authorized standing in 2019, was deported for no purpose and has no felony document.
The wildest a part of all of that is that shortly after his arrest and deportation, the Trump administration admitted that it was an “administrative error” and has been dragging its ft ever since on making certain Abrego Garcia’s return.
“We’re incredulous, Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, stated in an announcement to NPR. “Twenty-four extra hours and nonetheless no solutions as to what they’ve completed thus far, and what they’re planning on doing going ahead, to hold out the Supreme Court docket’s ruling.”
“The continued delay in executing a Supreme Court docket mandate just isn’t solely unacceptable—it’s a direct affront to the rule of regulation,” Murray Osorio PLLC, an immigration regulation agency Sandoval-Moshenberg can also be representing Abrego Garcia, famous in an announcement.
“The Division of Homeland Safety and the Division of State should act with out additional delay and supply full transparency concerning the steps being taken to make sure Mr. Abrego Garcia’s protected return.”
One thing tells me that the worst might have already occurred. If President Nayib Bukele truly believes that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist, then why would he be inclined to guard him? It looks as if everybody moreover the American folks has been in on the kidnapping and incarceration of a person who has dedicated no crime. And if this doesn’t upset either side of the aisle, I don’t know what’s going to.
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