This is amazing
Building Trades President goes off about wrongful #deportation of #union worker #KilmarAbregoGarcia
This is amazing
Building Trades President goes off about wrongful #deportation of #union worker #KilmarAbregoGarcia
"It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador," it said. "He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."
The filing from Michael Kozak, of the #State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, did not, however, say what steps the #Trump admin was taking to bring #KilmarAbregoGarcia home, as #Xinis had also ordered.
"I am aware that the instant lawsuit has been filed seeking the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador," Kozak's filing said.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
US #State Dept says mistakenly deported Maryland resident 'alive & secure' in #ElSalvador
A State Dept court filing gave the update on #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who was sent to El Salvador on March 15 despite an order protecting him from #deportation, after US District Judge Paula #Xinis made the demand for daily updates on Friday.
#law #immigration #Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #AEA #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-department-says-deported-maryland-resident-alive-secure-el-salvador-2025-04-13/
Terrible decision
US judge will not curb #immigration enforcement in places of #worship
A federal judge on Friday refused to limit the #Trump admin’s immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 #religious organizations that had sued the admin over its decision to drop a previous policy against enforcement in sensitive locations.
#law #CivilRights #Constitution #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-will-not-curb-immigration-enforcement-places-worship-2025-04-11/
NEW NOW
#DOJ says #Trump admin will NOT comply w/ Judge Xinis' order because the deadline is "impracticable."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.59.0_1.pdf
Judge Xinis *grants* the government a partial extension but only until 11:30 AM today. Nice.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.57.0.pdf
#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution
#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #judiciary #AbuseOfPower #Trump
NEW
#Trump’s #DOJ is trying to cancel today's #KilmarAbregoGarcia hearing & delay filing a response to the judge's order until next week.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.52.0.pdf
The 9:30 deadline has passed with no information from the Justice Department about Abrego Garcia's location or status, as demanded by the judge. She has not granted an extension, unclear if she will.
…The other allegation #Trump makes against #MilesTaylor is that his anonymous writings “stoked dissension.” Trump said that amounted to “manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government that ‘vowed’ to undermine & render ineffective a sitting President.”
But the idea that there was some secretive group of govt ofcls working to undermine Trump & check his impulses was also promoted by…Trump himself.
…#Trump’s memo on #MilesTaylor is similarly hyperbolic. It accuses him of conduct that “could properly be characterized as treasonous & as possibly violating the Espionage Act.”
That alleged conduct? Trump claims Taylor’s 2019 book, which he also wrote anonymously, “illegally published classified conversations” & “is full of falsehoods & fabricated stories.”
But the memo points to no details about specific classified information Taylor supposedly shared.
But just as the stolen-election claims were routinely rejected by the courts, this argument has been dealt with by the courts, too — #SCOTUS, in fact. It rejected the claim that #CISA’s efforts to combat #misinformation violated the plaintiffs’ #FirstAmendment rights, as #Trump’s memo suggests. The opinion was written by none other than a Trump-appointed justice, #AmyConeyBarrett.
To the extent #Trump’s executive action got more detailed, it pointed to #ChrisKrebs’s role in supposedly censoring Americans’ claims about what Trump calls the “stolen” election, Hunter Biden’s laptop & the covid pandemic.
“CISA, under Krebs’ leadership, suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting supposed disinformation,” it reads.
#law #AbuseOfPower #RevengePolitics
#Trump crosses the Rubicon on ordering investigations of foes
Trump is now expressly ordering investigations of his foes — even criminal ones. That’s something Trump’s AG, #PamBondi, downplayed as a possibility at her confirmation hearing. (When asked what role the White House would play in investigation & prosecution decisions, Bondi responded: “It is the Department of Justice’s decision.”)
#law #AbuseOfPower #MilesTaylor #ChrisKrebs #RevengePolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/trump-doj-ivestigations-krebs-taylor/
Law enforcement agents from the #FBI, the #DEA, the #ATF, & #DHS have been given a list of questions to ask the minors & their sponsors during the *welfare checks*….The form directs agents to question sponsors about who asked them to sponsor the child, if any payment was made during the sponsor process, what info they provided in their application, whether the sponsor has ever been arrested, where the sponsors do their banking & where the sponsor works.
#DHS has enlisted the #FBI & other #criminal law enforcement agencies in recent weeks to conduct *welfare checks* on #children & young people who came to the United States without their parents, alarming advocates who worry it’s an effort to target them for #deportation or scare them.
#Trump admin officials say they want to protect young migrants from trafficking & violence. Advocates worry they’re being targeted for #deportation.
#immigration #law #AbuseOfPower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/10/trump-migrant-kids-welfare-checks/
This may be consequential for Judge #Boasberg’s contempt proceedings in the #Trump admin’s refusal to abide by his court order to turn around the planes & immediately stop all #AlienEnemiesAct #deportations.
In this decision. #SCOTUS unanimously rejected the argument that a district judge lacks power to order gov to facilitate return once planes leave US jdx. That was the admin’s main rationale for defying the court’s written order.
#SCOTUS’ decision was unanimous. Additionally it suggests someone held overseas can still be given due process.
Ya think? Especially given that the #Trump admin is paying #ElSalvador to detain the *deportees*
There is going to be a whole lot of arguing about what "facilitate" means / entails.
#SCOTUS writes:
The order properly requires the Government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25894464/24a949-order.pdf
#KilmarAbregoGarcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland & has had a work permit since 2019, was stopped & detained by #ICE officers on March 12 & questioned about his *alleged* gang affiliation. He was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile #deportation flights to #ElSalvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members.