Posted on 07/07/2025 2:54:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
GREENBELT, Maryland, July 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Kilmar Abrego's legal challenge to his wrongful deportation to El Salvador can continue despite the decision by President Donald Trump's administration to bring him back to the United States to face criminal charges.
Maryland-based U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis found that there were ongoing issues to resolve in the case, including whether the administration fully complied with prior orders to facilitate Abrego's return and allow his immigration case to be handled as though he had not been improperly deported.
Justice Department lawyers had argued that the case was moot given Abrego's return from El Salvador in June to face U.S. charges accusing him of unlawfully transporting migrants living illegally in the United States. Abrego has pleaded not guilty to the charges in Tennessee.
Abrego is a Salvadoran national who was living in Maryland when the U.S. government deported him in March to El Salvador despite a 2019 judicial order barring such a move on the grounds that he could face persecution by gangs in his home country. His wife and young son are American citizens.
Xinis during Monday's hearing expressed frustration over the administration's handling of the case, particularly the uncertainty over a potential second deportation. A federal judge overseeing Abrego's criminal case ordered last month that Abrego be released, but the Trump administration has said it plans to immediately take him into immigration custody and bring new deportation proceedings.
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As somebody noted, had he been kept in El Salvador then he might have been free by now. Instead, he now faces decades in prison for his crimes.
Ignore it. Let it stew.
Would have been nice had the DOJ or whoever it was didn’t say he was deported to El Salvador by accident. Clearly that will be a big part of the lawsuit. That person should be fired even if it was true.
Define “facilitate”.
“had he been kept in El Salvador then he might have been free by now”
I thought in El Salvador, he was locked up in motel de cucarachas. Check in but no hay salida.
If he is convicted, the Dems will have created their own Willie Horton. Of course, if he is found innocent, this thing will boomerang on the Administration.
Seriously. There nothing to mitigate the fact he is here illegally. Bye bye.
I can’t wait to see this cat loaded onto a flight to South Sudan.
Dershowitz believes he might have been free now under El Salvadorian law if he had stayed there. Now, he might 20 or more years for his crimes, because he came back.
“...if he is found innocent...”
The fact his family might have to visit him in a place like South Sudan would be a perfect step on a rake effect that the Swamp just us in MD didn’t count on.
HIS HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY & NOT JUST RECENT. GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME.
HOW MANY ‘DO-OVERS” do these JUDGES THINK NEED TO HAPPEN?
If I recall correctly, the idiot lawyer was fired.
Good. I hate people who try to be negative towards the administration.
There was no WRONGFUL deportation.
Kilmar had a deportation order, which was later modified to say that he could not be deported to GUATEMALA, not El Salvador.
Some try to explain this by saying that it was an error on the part of the judge and that he really meant El Salvador, but that is what the order said: Guatemala, and was not corrected.
There was nothing wrong in deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
Enjoy South Sudan, Kilmar.
“Would have been nice had the DOJ or whoever it was didn’t say he was deported to El Salvador by accident.”
Malicious compliance by Biden holdovers at DOJ. Every Biden or Obama DOJ appointee should be fired. Obama did it when he took office.
Hire a private charter with First Class seating and fly him back to the U.S. then release him with a stipend. Tell El Salvador that the U.S. is now in charge of its justice system.
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