An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
www.theatlantic.com
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Disable JavaScript to bypass paywall.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 days ago

    It was a mistake, but he had every opportunity to prove he wasn’t guilty of the thing we used as justification to mistakenly deport him. So really, it is kinda his fault. Oh and we can’t get him back. Sorry bye. - ICE probably

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    491·
    2 days ago

    An Asian-American acquaintance of mine is a hardcore Trump supporter and I asked him the other day if he was worried about his family being deported. His parents came here from China and became citizens years ago, so he said he’s not worried at all, because it’s only “the illegals” that are being targeted. It made me wonder if the majority of Hispanic voters feel the same way since these recent ICE raids.

    • OwlPaste@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      2 days ago

      Ask him if his parents ever had any record with police (like speeding), from the stories that come out, it seems that anything that puts you on police record can easily be cause for deportation

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Is this the guy they say they can’t get back? Or is that a different guy?

    Shouldn’t it be pretty worrying that they can’t get someone back to correct a mistake? That should be pretty concerning even to people who would support this nonsense.

    • droans@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Yes.

      But they didn’t say they can’t get him back. They said they won’t get him back. The Trump administration argues that the courts cannot order them to bring him back to the US as he is not on US land.

      My personal guess is that he’s already dead. They put him in a prison with the same people who wanted to murder him.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, said he’s never seen a case in which the government knowingly deported someone who had already received protected legal status from an immigration judge. He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government, which says it’s charging the United States $6 million a year to jail U.S. deportees.

    Trump-administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family.

    “They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,’’ Sandoval-Moshenberg told me. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”

    So Trump is king now?

    Fucking asswipe more likely.