Reuters The Trump administration said a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported and then brought back to the US on criminal charges will “never go free” on American soil, even though a judge ordered his release. Kilmar Ábrego García was deported in March as part of an immigration crackdown. Government officials said he was removed...
A top official within the Nashville, Tennessee, area’s Department of Justice (DOJ) offices has resigned after the Trump administration charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported from the U.S. earlier this year, with human trafficking. Abrego Garcia, a noncitizen who has spent nearly half his life living in Maryland, was wrongfully deported this...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia aka the “Maryland Man” Democrats went to bat after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador is now back in the country. That should resolve a dispute between the Trump administration and the courts which ordered the administration attempt to at least attempt to bring him back. For months, the Trump administration...
Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old from El Salvador who was mistakenly deported in March, has been returned to the US to face prosecution on two federal criminal charges. He has been accused of participating in a trafficking conspiracy over several years to move people from Texas to other parts of the country. El Salvador agreed...
At a hearing Wednesday on the status of nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration hastily expelled to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, a federal judge told lawyers representing the detainees that there were “a lot of facts in their favor” regarding whether the White House has the authority to return the men...
Better late than never? When Tennessee state police pulled over Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a car owned by a convicted human trafficker, carrying eight people without identification, the FBI and ICE couldn’t be bothered to even ask the troopers to detain the group. The police knew Abrego Garcia was trafficking the group from Missouri to...
After a year lay-off, an overly cautious Haney, who was dropped three times by Garcia last year, never really got going in a below-par showing. He circled around the ring, landing the occasional lead left hook, but neglected his jab as single shots did enough to edge the rounds. Defensively, it was a sound performance...
There six authors in the byline of this story titled “The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’.” I think it’s fair to say the NY Times is going all out here to salvage a failing Democratic effort to make Kilmar Abrego Garcia a sympathetic figure, despite all the bad news that has come out...
Reportedly, House Democrart caucus leader Hakeem Jeffries has quietly ordered his fellow Democrats to ixnay on the ipstray to El-ay Alvador-say. Perhaps Jeffries belatedly figured out that turning an illegal alien with one restraining order for domestic violence and clear connections to criminal activity into a progressive martyr for open borders wasn’t playing well. Or...
Trump admitted in an interview on Tuesday that he could get the Maryland father back with a single phone call. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) has said that El Salvador’s vice president claims that the country is only holding American resident Kilmar Abrego García because it has a contractual obligation to the U.S., which is...
Say what? Shot: Four House Democrats were scheduled to land in El Salvador Monday to demand the release and return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and was deported by the administration to a prison in El Salvador due to what the Trump administration an “administrative error.” The group — Rep....
Officials are in “violation of international law” by barring Abrego García access to legal counsel, the senator said. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) was finally granted a meeting with Kilmar Abrego García in El Salvador on Thursday evening, just hours after he accused Salvadorian officials of violating international human rights law in a press conference...
A US senator has met with a man who Trump administration officials have acknowledged was deported in error from Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen posted photos of his meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García, whom the administration has refused to return to the US despite an order from a...
Lately I’ve been wondering where the tipping point is: how long can pundits brandish phrases like “threat to democracy,” or debate whether the United States is in a “constitutional crisis,” before the perpetual asking of that question itself reveals the answer? If Donald Trump and his allies are whittling away at democracy’s very core, will...
I had an interesting discussion with Grok yesterday about the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia deportation case, and it got me thinking a lot about the public discussion and why it is so bizarre to me. Grok helped clarify the basics about the standards of proof required in such cases, the legal niceties, and why people...