Posted on 04/24/2025 3:43:10 PM PDT by Morgana
Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of a second man wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador, a federal judge has ruled, deepening a standoff between the courts and White House over the president’s radical immigration policies.
District Judge Stephanie Gallagher said Wednesday the 20-year-old Venezuelan, along with multiple other migrants, was protected by a 2024 class action settlement prohibiting the deportation of migrants who arrived as unaccompanied minors until their asylum claims are fully adjudicated.
His case comes amid a mounting political row over the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran returned to his native country and still imprisoned there, despite the US Supreme Court ordering the government to facilitate his return.
The United States has paid El Salvador millions of dollars to lock up scores of migrants it says are criminals and gang members, in a maximum security prison with a history of alleged human rights violations.
Abrego Garcia, who has not been charged with any crime, was detained in Maryland last month and expelled to El Salvador along with 238 Venezuelans and 22 fellow Salvadorans who were deported shortly after Trump invoked a rarely used wartime authority.
The Trump administration has claimed that it doesn’t have the power to bring him back, raising fears that its defiance of the Supreme Court was placing the country on the cusp of a constitutional crisis.
Gallagher, a Maryland-based Trump appointee, said she concurred with the ruling in Abrego Garcia’s case that “facilitation” meant taking concrete steps to bring wrongly deported migrants back to the United States.
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Very dark.
They’re Illegals not Migrants even a stupid judge should know that
The judges need to understand that they need to intervene before the person is in foreign custody to issue an order. Maybe his post facto orders should be sent to the president of El Salvador. /s
bring a shovel with you!... js...
The president of el salvador needs to tell these judges to go pound sand
Another childless Harvard Georgetown judge who loves the crooks. Ignore this idiot, there is nothing to support her legally.
No
Just like the first, we will send a plane to facilitate their return as soon as El Salvador releases them. That should be in 20 years.
Day 802 of lawfare continues
Those poor pitiful “ immigrants “ are living large and I don’t have enough money to finish paying to get my burned house fixed
Tell me that is right.
We should just laugh at and ignore these “judges”.
Ignore this idiot judge.
Dare Roberts to do anything about it.
L
The commie US judges think they can dictate to Bukele what he can and cannot do in his own country. [SMH]
Look at how much work they are getting done in the house and Senate. It’s clear they do not want to be in power
Seeing the Leftist Democrats using their obviously-compromised “jurists” in such a chaotic, hysterical fashion is a clear indication they see this as their last chance.
Continuing this BS isn’t going to help improve their dismal polling much. But they’re too detached from reality to wrap their pointy heads around that.
They obviously want to lose. They haven’t done anything about these judges. And where are the tax cuts? Worst Congress ever.
I think the time has arrived to ignore these people. Its clear they have little standing and certainly arent following the rule of law…. They are essentially obstructing it.
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