#Trump said on Saturday he was looking forward to meeting #Bukele & praised him for taking "enemy aliens" from the #UnitedStates. He said the two countries were working closely to "eradicate terrorist organizations."
"These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud & sovereign Nation, & their future is up to President B & his Government. They will never threaten or menace our Citizens again!" #TrumpLies.
"It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador," it said. "He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."
The filing from Michael Kozak, of the #State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, did not, however, say what steps the #Trump admin was taking to bring #KilmarAbregoGarcia home, as #Xinis had also ordered.
"I am aware that the instant lawsuit has been filed seeking the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador," Kozak's filing said.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
US #State Dept says mistakenly deported Maryland resident 'alive & secure' in #ElSalvador
A State Dept court filing gave the update on #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who was sent to El Salvador on March 15 despite an order protecting him from #deportation, after US District Judge Paula #Xinis made the demand for daily updates on Friday.
#law #immigration #Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #AEA #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-department-says-deported-maryland-resident-alive-secure-el-salvador-2025-04-13/
Speaking of the important legal principle that is "because I said so," Trump's Border Czar and noted Fury Road villain Tom Homan recently responded to questions about who determines if a person targeted for deportation is in a gang and how do they do so, with almost literally - "just trust us bro."
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-border-czar-ices-word-is-enough-to-prove-someones-a-gang-member/
Trump Border Czar: ICE’s Word Is Enough to Prove Someone’s a Gang Member
"Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s so-called “border czar,” has said that nothing more than the word of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is needed to prove that a noncitizen living in the U.S. is a gang member, and thus subject to deportation.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this year asserting his right to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants living in the U.S. if they are deemed by the administration to be violent gang members. Hundreds of migrants have been deported on that basis, even though an analysis by CBS News found that nearly three-quarters of the people sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record at all.
Those who have been deported have largely been denied their due process rights, which would have allowed them to argue against being indiscriminately labeled as a gang member by the administration.
In an interview with Axios that was published on Tuesday, Homan appeared to dismiss those concerns, claiming, without evidence, that even those with no criminal history are members of violent gangs."
My favorite Trump regime stories are the ones where you can tell the government is lying, but even if they weren't their excuses wouldn't matter anyway.
Homan wants us to believe that ICE is doing "deep dive" investigative work into whether or not migrants targeted as part of a human trafficking scheme to ship people to a slave labor prison in El Salvador, are members of a gang; which would be pretty implausible if you looked at how fast they're finding and deporting people, but becomes almost laughable when the regime is openly admitting it just deported an innocent man who had a judge's order protecting him from deportation a little over a week ago. I'm sure there were a crack squads of Gestapo investigators working around the clock on making sure these were gang members when they deported *checks notes* the soccer player with a Real Madrid tattoo, and the guy with an autistic brother and an autism acceptance movement tattoo as well; gimme a break. The entire line of argument was also rendered irrelevant however when Homan admitted, in the same interview, that it's just vibes:
"But ultimately, he said, if an ICE agent suspected someone of being in a gang, that was all the evidence needed.
“ICE is the principal arbiter” in making these determinations, Homan said."
Of course, all of this ignores that no matter how objectionable we may find gangs in our society, it's not actually illegal to be in a gang - which will be news to racist police officers all over the country, but isn't to the District Attorneys who prosecute actual crimes. Furthermore, let us remember that these human trafficking flights (people are being kidnapped, transported to a slave labor prison, and money is changing hands) are themselves being justified by a wholly made up invasion, by a gang with reportedly less than a thousand people in the United States, that is sekretly a terrorist arm of the Venezuelan government pretty much entirely because Trump said so in an executive order; nothing about this fascist shitshow is based on facts, evidence, or reality.
NEW NOW
#DOJ says #Trump admin will NOT comply w/ Judge Xinis' order because the deadline is "impracticable."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.59.0_1.pdf
Judge Xinis *grants* the government a partial extension but only until 11:30 AM today. Nice.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.57.0.pdf
#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution
#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #judiciary #AbuseOfPower #Trump
NEW
#Trump’s #DOJ is trying to cancel today's #KilmarAbregoGarcia hearing & delay filing a response to the judge's order until next week.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.52.0.pdf
The 9:30 deadline has passed with no information from the Justice Department about Abrego Garcia's location or status, as demanded by the judge. She has not granted an extension, unclear if she will.
This may be consequential for Judge #Boasberg’s contempt proceedings in the #Trump admin’s refusal to abide by his court order to turn around the planes & immediately stop all #AlienEnemiesAct #deportations.
In this decision. #SCOTUS unanimously rejected the argument that a district judge lacks power to order gov to facilitate return once planes leave US jdx. That was the admin’s main rationale for defying the court’s written order.
#SCOTUS’ decision was unanimous. Additionally it suggests someone held overseas can still be given due process.
Ya think? Especially given that the #Trump admin is paying #ElSalvador to detain the *deportees*
There is going to be a whole lot of arguing about what "facilitate" means / entails.
#SCOTUS writes:
The order properly requires the Government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25894464/24a949-order.pdf
#KilmarAbregoGarcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland & has had a work permit since 2019, was stopped & detained by #ICE officers on March 12 & questioned about his *alleged* gang affiliation. He was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile #deportation flights to #ElSalvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members.
"By using the Alien Enemies Act far outside the bounds for which it was designed and (wrongfully) made use of before, and by employing the word 'enemy' to describe his political opponents and people he simply does not like, Trump has made the Hitler analogy as real and undeniable as the fact that tomorrow, night will fall and darkness will descend over the land."
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct #Hitler
/6
"At least for some, comparing Donald Trump with Adolph Hitler may have previously seemed an exaggerated description of our political reality."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
Once again: all of this with the full complicity of the right-wing Catholic "pro-life" wing now in control of the Supreme Court.
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct #Hitler
/5
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-shit-is-getting-real
"The Supreme Court’s ruling gestures at due process for people caught in an inhumane deportation machine, while effectively removing the only convenient avenue for relief. It’s also a bright green light for the Trump administration to continue giving the middle finger to courts, safe in the knowledge that their pals at One First Street will bail them out."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct
/4
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/john-roberts-alien-enemies-act-ruling-trump
"There is simply no other way to read what the Supreme Court did than as a naked effort to derail a looming showdown between the Trump administration and Judge Boasberg while simultaneously making it much harder for migrants to challenge deportation orders."
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct #autocracy
/3
"Before Chief Judge James Boasberg could even hear the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction in J.G.G. v. Trump, five justices vacated his temporary restraining order. This will almost certainly moot the case, potentially allowing the administration to deport any one, at any time, for any reason."
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct #autocracy
/2
"On Monday night, just hours before the Trump administration was due in court to defend its practice of renditioning migrants to a Salvadoran gulag, the Supreme Court leapt in to save the president by inventing new law. Again.
~ Andrew Torrez and Liz Dye
#Trump #ICE #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immigrants #deportations #AlienEnemiesAct #autocracy
/1
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-rendition-is-fine-actually
Sick
#Trump #immigration ofcls tout expanding the #AlienEnemiesAct while courting private contractors for mass removals
The head of #ICE said he’d like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up #immigrants for #deportation in a system similar to how #Amazon delivers packages.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” acting ICE dir, Todd Lyons, said. He wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings”
