Federal Judges seledom if EVER get ignored, given excuses or told to their face their rulings are gonna be NOT followed …
THAT HAS BEEN the case from Trump & Co. over and OVER….
This case has HUGE implications….
The Trump Admin (Strephen Miller) is NOT arguing ….
He Appears to be PRESURING ICE for Body Counts….
They have gone Full SPEED ahead in dentaing and sumarily deporting people waiting foir immigration hearings, people with Green Cards, and EVEN US Citizens….
A federal judge in a scathing decision on Sunday said the Trump administration had no legal grounds to arrest, detain and deport a Salvadoran national from the United States to a prison in his home country, saying the decision was “wholly lawless.”
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a 22-page decision ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Kristi Noem to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.
“Neither the United States nor El Salvador have told anyone why he was returned to the very country to which he cannot return, or why he is detained at CECOT,” Xinis wrote, referring to the El Salvador prison now holding Abrego Garcia.
“That silence is telling. As Defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador — let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”
“To avoid clear irreparable harm, and because equity and justice compels it, the Court grants the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted: to order that Defendants return Abrego Garcia to the United States.”
The decision includes a number of new details about Garcia….
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The administration has argued that Xinis lacks the power to hear the case, but Xinis rejected all of their arguments, writing that “defendants are wrong on several fronts” in part because Abrego Garcia is not challenging his confinement in the United States but his deportation to the prison in El Salvador.
She accused the administration of clinging “to the stunning proposition that they can forcibly remove any person — migrant and U.S. citizen alike — to prisons outside the United States, and then baldly assert they have no way to effectuate return because they are no longer the ‘custodian,’ and the Court thus lacks jurisdiction,” Xinis wrote. “As a practical matter, the facts say otherwise.”…
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Xinis quoted a lawyer for the U.S. government, Erez Reuveni, who has since been suspended. Reuveni in a previous appearance in court said he had asked DHS why it could not return Abrego Garcia and had not “received, to date, an answer that I find satisfactory.”….
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Xinis said Abrego Garcia should be returned because he had demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of his argument that he should not have been deported, and that there was a likelihood of severe harm if he wasn’t given relief.
“Defendants effectuated his detention in one of the most notoriously inhumane and dangerous prisons in the world,” Xinis wrote of Abrego Garcia. “Defendants even embrace that reality as part of its well-orchestrated mission to use CECOT as a form of punishment and deterrence.”…
This Also….
DHS Head Noem could be held in contempt of a Federal Court and fined for disobeying a Fedxeral Court order ….
A frustrated federal judge is strongly considering holding Trump administration officials in contempt of court for their urgent rush to deport hundreds of people to El Salvador on President Donald Trump’s order.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the administration appeared to have acted “in bad faith” when it hurriedly assembled three deportation flights on March 15 at the same time that Boasberg was arranging emergency court proceedings to assess the legality of the effort.
Boasberg said during a hearing Thursday that he’s still weighing what penalties he could impose if he does hold officials in contempt. But courts have broad power to issue fines or impose jail time on people who defy court orders. Boasberg could even try to order the administration to demand that El Salvador return the deportees to the United States.
U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records
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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift a judge’s order requiring officials to bring an illegally deported Maryland man back from a high-security prison in El Salvador.
In an emergency appeal filed Monday morning, Solicitor General John Sauer asked the justices to suspend a midnight deadline a federal judge in Maryland set for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported last month to his home country of El Salvador despite an immigration judge’s 2019 order that he not be sent there because he could face persecution…
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