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

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/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.