"Judge says deportation of man to El Salvador prison is ‘wholly lawless,’ with deadline to return him to America today"
~ Karina Tsui
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/us/abrego-garcia-return-us-answers-student-visas-hnk/index.html
"At a hearing last Friday, Judge Xinis asked Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni why Abrego Garcia was not returned as soon as it became clear he'd been sent by mistake, he responded that he'd asked his client, but 'I have not received, to date, an answer that is satisfactory.'
Reuveni was placed on administrative leave the next day.
The Justice Department continues to argue that Abrego Garcia is out of its hands, and that the district court judge overstepped her authority.
'The United States does not control the sovereign nation of El Salvador, nor can it compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge's bidding,' the Justice Department argued in its brief before the Supreme Court.
Judge Xinis rejected that argument, and pointed out that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador to hold these prisoners. The Fourth Circuit appeals court panel agreed with that reasoning.
'The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders,' wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, and then contend 'that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done.'
'It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone,' wrote Wilkinson, who was appointed to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan."
~ Jasmine Garsd, Joel Rose
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