The Garcia Case against the Trump/Miller and Justice Dept. IS NOT going away….
It HAS become the breaking point against the aggressive immigration policy actions of this President who HAS been using immigrants and migrants as a Political whipping post….
Please read the linked piece below…
It could have this case seem like a several MISTAKES that Trump & Co. do NOT want to admit and try to fix…
It also has become a test between the Federal Judiciary and Office of the President….
A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday to open a high-stakes contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated an order he issued last month directing officials to stop planes of Venezuelan migrants from being sent to El Salvador.
In a 46-page ruling, the judge, James E. Boasberg, said that he would begin contempt proceedings against the administration unless the White House did what it has failed to do for more than a month: give scores of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador under the expansive authority of a wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act a chance to challenge their removal.
“The court does not reach such conclusions lightly or hastily,” wrote Judge Boasberg, who sits as the chief judge in Federal District Court in Washington. “Indeed, it has given defendants ample opportunity to explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory.”
Judge Boasberg’s threat of contempt proceedings came one day after another federal judge, in another case involving the deportation flights to El Salvador, announced that she was beginning her own inquiry into whether the White House had violated a separate ruling by the Supreme Court.
In that case, Judge Paula Xinis, who sits in Federal District Court in Maryland, ordered the administration within the next two weeks to answer questions — both in writing and in depositions — about why it had so far apparently failed to comply with directions from the Supreme Court to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from the same Salvadoran prison to which the Venezuelan migrants had been sent.
Taken together, the twin decisions by the judges represented a remarkable attempt by jurists to hold the White House accountable for not only its apparent willingness to flout court orders, but also more broadly its inclination to probe the traditional, but increasingly fragile, balance of power between the executive and judicial branches….
US Attorney General Bondi….
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration failed to take “one extra step of paperwork” before it mistakenly deported a Maryland man, adding that nonetheless Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “not coming back to our country.”
The comments were the latest example of officials under President Trump digging in despite a Supreme Court order requiring them to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
“He is not coming back to our country. President Bukele said he was not sending him back. That’s the end of the story,” she told reporters at a press conference Wednesday, referring to the Salvadorian leader. “If he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back. There was no situation ever where he was going to stay in this country. None, none.”
Bondi has previously argued the Supreme Court’s order to facilitate his return meant only that the government would need to supply a plane if El Salvador chooses to return him….
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A review of Abrego Garcia’s ties to the gang indicates the assertion he was a member was largely based on his wearing of a Chicago Bulls jersey and hat when he was arrested in 2019 after loitering outside of a Home Depot looking for work.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also based the accusation on a tip from an informant who said Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang’s New York branch, despite him never having lived in New York.
The detective who supplied the information to ICE about those gang ties was later suspended.
Immigration Judge Elizabeth Kessler refused to release Abrego Garcia on bond, writing that the confidential informant was a “past, proven, and reliable source of information.” The Justice Department has cited her ruling as evidence that he was part of the gang.
A second immigration judge later granted Abrego Garcia “withholding of removal,” blocking any efforts to send him to El Salvador on the grounds he could face gang violence…..
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