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Catherine Curtis's avatar

Keeping positive energy for a speedy & good resolution for Abrego Garcia. Thanks for the update.

This is one of the most horrific situations that I have come across via immigration courts/ law.

My 💜 goes out to his family.

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Anne Settanni's avatar

I pray they will at least release him to a country with democratic principles which are upheld

where his wife and children can join him!

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Larissa Schwartz's avatar

Release him to where? He wasn't supposed to have been removed from the US, he's followed all the rules here. BTW, the regime is also sending humans to prison in Rwanda, no joke.https://www.reuters.com/world/us-deports-iraqi-man-centre-debate-refugee-policy-2025-04-24/

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Mary Ann Brown's avatar

The Supreme Court clarified (or Judge Xinis) that he be released and returned to the US. He was working and living in Maryland with his wife and children. He was legally living in the US. Anything short of returning him to the US would not allow him to receive due process.

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Larissa Schwartz's avatar

I'm aware. Due process and following court orders is antithetical to the regime just as they telegraphed. Donald has never known consequences. It's horrid.

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Libbey Dem's avatar

I wouldn't hold my breath on that. Cruelty is their agenda. El Salvador is THE worst torture prison in the world, there is always a #2 on the list.

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Mel Elmore's avatar

What about the new revelation that ICE transferred some of the prisoners to DOD and they were the ones that flew them out even after the court said that ICE had to stop?

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Scott's avatar
5dEdited

How can his case be handled like any other if he’s kept out of the US during the review process? That already sounds like not “handling it like every other case.”

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Mary Ann Brown's avatar

Exactly.

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Darryl Baird's avatar

Finally I can see a clear picture of his hands... no tattoos. The bald lie of Trump should land him in jail.

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Mary Beth Wilkinson's avatar

Thank you, Allison, for making it easy for me, and many like me, to understand what's going on with this poor man's case. Appreciate you!

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Kristen Leist's avatar

This is all unadulterated bullshit. None of the people renditioned to El Salvador have been charged with a crime, much less convicted of a crime. If the Trump-Musk regime can kidnap and rendition to a concentration camp in a foreign country an undocumented immigrant, they can do it to anyone.

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C. Lunday's avatar

My guess is that they filed under seal the name of the prison he was moved to but they don’t know his condition (besides from Van Hollen) or what would be the conditions of his release.

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Therese Chan's avatar

Wow. Thanks for the update, AG.

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Kaye Stone's avatar

Slimy sickos are running our country. 🤬 They have to be stopped!

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Lyn Jameyson's avatar

Thank you for this!

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Alison Sheehey's avatar

What I want to know is if any of the kidnapped prisoners are actually adjudicated members of MS13 or if all deportees are just

run of the mill undocumented?

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Loretta Abdo's avatar

AG, why don’t you refer to them as the Trump regime instead of administration. Regime sounds crimier.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

It does sound "crimier," and more authoritarian. Also this outfit isn't doing much in the way of "administering." At the same time -- well, the facts that Trump-Vance did get elected, and that Trump's approval ratings are still in the high 30s to mid 40s, signal that U.S. democracy is in very serious trouble and this trouble was of our own collective making. Here's hoping there's a reasonably democratic way out of it.

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IndigoPatricia's avatar

Thank you, Allison.

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Daniel R. Schramm's avatar

I’m no immigration lawyer. But I question your assumption that Garcia can be deported to another country without an evidentiary hearing. My understanding of the prior withholding from removal order was that it did not grant permanent asylum, but allowed Garcia to remain in the country and work. Garcia was released from custody subject to the supervision of DHS. It seems to me that the government should have prove the prior order is no longer justified.

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C. Lunday's avatar

I think, and don’t count me on this, that this is because the DOJ has admitted they will just re-deport him without due process again. So potentially the safest bet would be he is in a more friendly country that can assist until his case is resolved and he can come back here. I think that is what Allison was getting at. But I’m not certain and believe the sealed information had nothing to do with this, but that they know his location.

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Daniel R. Schramm's avatar

Maybe that is what the DOJ intends. But Judge Xinis ordered the government to facilitate Garcia‘a return to the United States - not to facilitate his transfer to another country.

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C. Lunday's avatar

Very true but they have already ignored more than one court order so I don’t have a lot of hope that they will actually follow through

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Justin Kelly's avatar

Thanks AG for another fab synopsis of this case. As always with your breakdowns of important cases involving the Trump regime, you not only produce accessible distillations of the complex legal matters and judicial proceedings, but do so without ever losing sight of the true issues at the heart of the brutish conflict: these are people--families, including children, to whom are due the same inalienable rights not only to just legal process but to recognition of the inherent dignity due all persons.

As to the seven-day stay that was agreed to by both parties, the terms of which are under seal, I agree it signals something unanticipated is afoot! I note from the docket on this case that the list of attorneys that now represent Mr Garcia, his wife and their child is a veritable who's who of noted partners of powerhouse firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, a global firm the mere mention of whose name can alone cause palpitations in the hearts of those against whom they appear! (Admittedly less of a problem for defendants such as these, where the presence of any heart remains a matter of debate lol)

Although it's all a bit tea-leaf reading while filings remain under seal, I would hazard to speculate a settlement of substance is being negotiated--I wouldn't deign to extend that speculatation to the particulars! But with the vast trove of material available to the plaintiffs, not only from the facts but the conduct of a uniquely incompetent and lawless administration, whose ghouls dispense a diatribe of defamation every time their lips flap up and down, it will be interesting to see what emerges on the 30th!

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