A U.S. judge ruled that the Trump administration must return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador back to the United States within three days. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/world/crime-legal/us-man-wrongly-deported-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #elsalvador #immigration
Gerichtsurteil: Nach El Salvador Abgeschobener soll zurück in die USA
Ein US-Gericht hat entschieden, dass ein zu Unrecht nach El Salvador abgeschobener Mann in die USA zurückgeholt werden muss. Die Trump-Regierung räumt zwar einen Fehler ein, hält aber an schweren Vorwürfen fest.
Abrego Garcia was arrested & deported last month — despite having been granted protection by an #immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented him from being deported to #ElSalvador.
Judge Xinis ordered the #Trump admin to return Abrego Garcia to the US by 11:59PM ET on Mon, April 7. She said keeping him in El Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.
A federal judge in Maryland Friday ordered the #Trump admin to take immediate steps to return a MD man who was deported to #ElSalvador’s #CECOT mega-prison by mistake, setting up another high-stakes clash between the WH & the courts.
"This was an illegal act," US Federal District Judge Paula Xinis told #DOJ lawyers at a federal court hearing in Greenbelt, MD about the deportation of #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who lived in the US legally & had a work permit.
#law #immigration
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5352448/judge-orders-the-trump-administration-to-return-man-who-was-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador
I guess I got kinda nostalgic with my previous post about Shannon. I really do miss him a lot. When I talk about my past, my son sometimes says he wishes he could've met Shannon.
So, here are some photos from 1993, when Shannon flew down to El Salvador to hang out with me. I'd been in Central America for a coupla months already. Shannon brought 2 surfboards and we surfed Punta Roca, in La Libertad, long before it became a major stop on the WSL Championship Tour. Today it's a crowded lineup. In fact, the Surf City El Salvador Pro is happening there right now. But back then, you could share that nearly perfect cobble stone point break with as few as 2-3 local boys, and no other foreigners. We also surfed nearby El Zunzal, at least until a shark drove everyone out of the water. (There had been a fatal shark attack just a few days prior, and no one, not even the locals, wanted to test their luck). They also have sea snakes. And the water and air are so warm you're tempted to bring a water bottle out into the lineup with you to stave off dehydration.
The first picture, below, is from a demonstration we attended against the death squads. In '93, the Civil War was officially over. But there were still periodic death squad killings. People had protest signs: "Impunidad, Basta Ya!" There were UN peace keepers there. Busloads of people from all the different departments (states), proudly displaying the names of people's towns and villages. Representatives were there from Amnesty International, and CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador). In San Salvador's Zona Rosa, you could still see bullet holes in the restaurant walls, 10 years later, from the brazen attack by guerrillas there. They killed several U.S. marines and businessmen, as well as Salvadoran soldiers. And in the beach side cantinas and restaurants of La Libertad, you could gorge on oysters with oligarchs and their teenage secretaries (not that one would want to, but they'd sometimes show up, while you were drinking a caguama of cerveza Regia and munching on free snacks of grilled shrimp).
The other 2 photos are from the room we rented in a casa de huespedes we were staying at in El Zunzal. Shannon brought a camping stove that ran on gasoline. We sometimes cooked our own meals in the room. One night, a bat flew into a wall outside our room. As I examined it's stunned body, lying on the ground, it got scared, but was too stunned to fly. So, using it's wings like propellers, it scuttled into our room before we could stop it. And then managed to fly up into the rafters. And for the rest of the trip, we had to share our room with a bat.
There was a local guy we befriended, Antonio. He was a classic surfer bum. Not sure what he did for money, but he was always surfing, or hanging out with us. Made himself a didgeridoo out of bamboo, and was quite competent at playing it. He always refused when we offered him beer, or aguardiente, because "no son puro." But he had no problem with weed, "porque es puro," as every stoner knows. Antonio loved 60s music. His favorite song was Break on Through, by the Doors. He was convinced that the song was about surfing. They way he explained it, the song was about punching through a wave on the paddle out, breaking through to the other side. And whenever he thought anyone was getting anxious or angry he'd say, "enfrialo."
The day Shannon arrived, I bussed to San Salvador, from La Libertad, to meet him at the airport. We stopped on the way back at a roadside refreshment stand. They had fresh coconuts, which Shannon was craving. But he made the mistake of requesting "una coca" instead of "un coco." He was very sad when they handed him a plastic bag filled with coca cola and a straw.
How the #Trump Admin Learned to Obscure the Truth in Court
This is a #litigation strategy born of the first travel ban.
The litigation over the govt’s summary #renditions of foreign nationals to an #ElSalvador prison, w/no #DueProcess of #law, is now at #SCOTUS’s door.
by @LeahLitman
#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-travel-ban-lessons/682259/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxU-uei3SPa1aps8eltAX-44
"the #Trump regime is admitting that its already lawless deportations – to an #ElSalvador prison notorious for human rights abuses – included a man who was entirely innocent.
So they're going to bring him back home? Not a chance, because you see, it's done and his life is over and no one – definitely no mere federal judge – can do a thing about it.
If you or someone you know got kidnapped off the street and sent to a foreign prison, too bad for you."
- @dangillmor
'We were lied to:' 2 women the #Trump admin tried to send to the #ElSalvador #CECOT prison speak out
The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/two-women-trump-admin-tried-send-el-salvador-prison-speak-rcna198958
USA schieben Mann "versehentlich" nach El Salvador ab
Die US-Regierung hat einen Mann wegen angeblicher Bandenmitgliedschaft nach El Salvador abgeschoben - zu Unrecht. Die Behörden räumten nun einen "Verwaltungsfehler" ein. Zurückkehren könne der Mann aber nicht.
The #Trump admin had asked #SCOTUS to intervene & lift a block on the #deportations imposed by a lower court. But a brief filed on behalf of the #immigrants by the #ACLU & #DemocracyForward said that block is now “the only thing” preventing the Trump admin from sending immigrants “to a prison in #ElSalvador, perhaps never to be seen again, without any kind of procedural protection, much less judicial review.”
Lawyers for #Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of a violent street gang asked #SCOTUS on Tues to continue a temporary block on #Trump’s use of a *wartime* powers #law to send hundreds of people to a prison in #ElSalvador.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/supreme-court-venezuelan-deportations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4FE76E62-DBB3-4F1B-9C74-507D2B5E59DD
"What they're actually doing here is openly declaring for themselves the power to commit "oopsie" deportations and then
*not* rectify them.
The Trump admin just admitted that a Salvadoran man was deported in error. Shockingly, Trump and JD Vance don’t seem to want to fix their mistake"—and the implications of that are dark
.
#Sadism #Fascism #Deportations #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw #Immigrants #GOPDeathCult #ElSalvador #CECOT #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/193442/trump-deportation-mistake-el-salvador
I'm getting sick of saying "yes the Trump regime is unquestionably fascist" because at some point, the evidence that they are a bunch of repugnant nazis is so extensive, you have to be willfully ignorant to keep pretending this is still up for debate; as many big media outlets in the US appear to be doing. This story however, brings us to a point where I feel compelled to point out not only that the Trump regime is definitely fascist, but these assclown nazi pigs are also, objectively speaking, evil.
As part of its unconstitutional scheme to traffic migrants, without due process, to a slave labor prison in El Salvador in order to wage a made up war against "gangs" and "Venezuela" apparently, Trump's DHS has admitted they "accidentally" deported a Maryland man, Abrego Garcia, who is A) married to a US citizen B) has a five year old disabled child, and C) had a judge's order *not* to deport him to El Salvador.
Trump Administration Admits Accidentally Deporting Maryland Father to El Salvador Mega Prison
“Although [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government admitted in response to Abrego Garcia’s complaint.
The government nevertheless argued in its filing that the court can’t order officials to bring Abrego Garcia home because he’s not in U.S. custody. The Trump administration is paying El Salvador to jail him, but the U.S. can’t force El Salvador to return the jailed men, the government claims.
It can only “entreat” or “cajole” its “close ally,” according to the filing.
“They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,” Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told The Atlantic. “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.”
Holy sweet fuck; let me restate that for clarity. The US govt just admitted, in court, that they unlawfully "deported" a guy who has been working and raising a family peacefully in the US for years while seeking *legal* asylum, despite a judge's order not to, as part of a nazi kabuki theater human trafficking (deportation, requires a hearing before an immigration judge) scheme. Despite this, the regime's lawyers are arguing, simultaneously, that they can't get him back because he's not in US custody, and they aren't obligated to obey a judge's order to return him because US courts don't have jurisdiction over El Salvador.
Wait, it gets better because the U.S. government is *also* arguing that they shouldn't have to do anything to correct this "mistake" because the man isn't in danger, and "even if Abrego Garcia is being wrongfully imprisoned, he hasn’t suffered irreparable harm." This is despite both the 2019 judge's order granted because Garcia was “more likely than not” to face persecution" in his country of origin (El Salvador), *and* a 2023 US State Dept report that "found credible reports that inmates in El Salvador had been electrocuted, tortured, and beaten to death." Finally it should be mentioned that the regime hasn't offered any legal reason (beyond "oopsie") for why it was trying to deport Garcia in the first place, given that even if Trump's bullshit invocation of the Alien Enemies Act walks in court somehow, Garcia isn't Venezuelan, and the state's own filing calls El Salvador a "close ally" - meaning we're not even at *fake* war with them in the Trump regime's own bubble of unreality.
Naturally, if the US wasn't being run by maliciously evil fascists, one might expect some degree of contrition; but that's not how the Pork Reich rolls. Vice President JD Vance took to social media to justify the actions his regime's own lawyers just admitted were a "mistake" by spewing fact-free excuses about MS-13 that had to be corrected multiple times because Vance didn't even read the government's own filing. As the article notes, even Vance's lies about gangs made no sense because ICE's previous case against Garcia (from 2019) was based on the testimony of one anonymous source and fell apart when the state couldn't produce anyone to testify; which is why he was still in the country and granted protected status while he sought asylum.
Folks, this wasn't a mistake; when you purposely ignore all the legal processes designed to prevent "mistakes" like this, we call that criminal negligence. The Trump regime wanted planes full of nonwhite migrants to display like war trophies on prime time TV, and Garcia fit the bill. They didn't care about the law; his skin tone and status as an asylum seeker made him an acceptable target. The cruelty was the point, which is why they don't want to return Garcia even after admitting their "mistake."
What is preventing this regime from disappearing ANYONE — EVEN US CITIZENS — to a foreign GULAG from which they can never be released? ANSWER: NOTHING! This is an outrage and should be universally condemned. I ask you to speak out, protest, and contact your Senators & Congresspersons in every way possible to stop these terrible violations of law and human rights!
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Has the Trump regime lied by saying that the error involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be corrected and that he cannot be returned? 2xWTF?! Our tax dollars are paying El Salvador $6 million to run a foreign concentration camp for the US from which no one will ever be released and no one can be allowed DUE PROCESS? 3xWTF!?
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... should offend every American who believes in human rights, the rule of law, and common decency. The #Constitution guarantees everyone DUE PROCESS, a right to challenge and dispute the legality of their detention or deportation IN COURT!
The latest despicable example of cruelty is the deportation of a Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported due to an 'administrative error.'
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I am appalled, alarmed, angry, and disgusted by the news about people being "disappeared" by #ICE and being taken to an El Salvador prison without their due process rights. We must stop the illegal deportations of #immigrants & #refugees with protected, green card, or other approved statuses in the US. The outrageous actions by #ICE to put these people in an El Salvador #GULAG - aka a #CONCENTRATIONCAMP -
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And after that , they are surprised that the rest of the world no longer believes in the word ( or contracts) of the U.Stand.Alone ( I have also other words for these 3 letters which come from the movie V for Vendetta)
