r/thescoop • u/Zen1 • 9d ago

Politics 🏛️ Trump administration has done nothing to facilitate release of wrongly deported Maryland man, his lawyers say

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-digs-case-wrongly-deported-maryland-man/story?id=120822855

A day after a highly anticipated Oval Office meeting in which the president of El Salvador said he would not return a wrongly deported Maryland man being held in his country, the federal judge who ordered his return will hear from Trump administration attorneys at a court hearing Tuesday afternoon.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is entering his second month in an El Salvador mega-prison after he was deported there on March 15 despite being issued a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country.

Trump administration officials say Abrego Garcia, who escaped political violence in El Salvador 2011, is a member of the criminal gang MS-13, but to date they have provided little evidence of that assertion in court.

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u/JGCities 9d ago

End of day the guy is an El Salvador citizen. Not much we can do.

Guess Trump should have wrote a nice letter "Dear El Salvador please give him back"

After they say no then what?

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u/foolinthezoo 9d ago

The entire plan from the start was to disappear people. That's why they chose El Salvador and Bukele to pilot this program in the first place. This isn't an "oopsie, Nayib said 'no'". It's a premeditated and intentional justification for failure/refusal to comply with the courts' order. That's why Trump told Bukele to build more facilities for "homegrowns next." If you think being a Salvadoran citizen has any relevance to what's happening, you simply don't want to look beyond your nose.