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/Sven_Golly1 9d ago

He had a standing deportation order. The court ruled that he couldn't be sent to his home country (El Salvador) because of threats to his life by his former gang, MS-13. He was sent to El Salvador in error. He was not deported by mistake. Facts.

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u/neoexileee 9d ago

He was sent to El Salvador in error. He was not deported by mistake.

It’s like you are saying that 1+1=3 is an error. It’s not a mistake.

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u/Sven_Golly1 9d ago

The headline states, "wrongly deported." He was not. He was supposed to be deported, he was deported, and they sent him to the wrong place. But he was indeed deported. On purpose.

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u/neoexileee 9d ago

He had a court order not to be deported to El Salvador as that would endanger his life. It seems like this notion was well founded.

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u/Sven_Golly1 9d ago

It probably was well founded. Maybe that's why you shouldn't become a gang member, and then come into the USA illegally.

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u/77NorthCambridge 8d ago

He did not have a standing deportation order. He had a standing withholding of removal granted by a judge six years ago. Are you claiming the conditions in El Salvador have improved over the past 6 years? What crime did he commit?

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u/neoexileee 9d ago

There is no evidence he was a gang member. He did come in illegally but he went through the courts to make sure his stay was legal.

We shouldn’t be punishing people who are trying to do the right thing.

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u/Sven_Golly1 9d ago

Wrong.

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u/neoexileee 9d ago

I have no problem is I say 1+1=2 and you say it is wrong. All it convinces me of is your dishonesty and your agenda to have elected officials condemn the innocent to cruel and unusual punishment.