Trump administration acknowledges it wrongfully deported a man to El Salvador terror prison but argues to the judge that he lacks the ability to order the man’s return www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump administration acknowledges it wrongfully deported a man to El Salvador terror prison but argues to the judge that he lacks the ability to order the man’s return www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The most powerful country on earth cannot get a man returned to the US that is exiled by error?
Right? The fact is, it is a terror campaign designed to intimidate (terrorize) people into self deporting for fear that this might be their fate. We could absolutely get him back. The terrorists don't want him back.
If the dude was white… 50 GOP congressmen and half of Fox “news” would already be in El Salvador holding press conferences.
Amazing how amerikan law enforcement is so quick to turn on the people it's supposed to serve, isn't it? Fuck these fucking nazis right in the head
This is why no one should be deported without a hearing. So what if it's a giant bother. Ice must find and return this man.
Complete bs.
Does this mean that no one from the US, deported to the El Salvador prison, can return to the US?
It's 2001 CIA black sites renditions back again
How FUBAR is that?
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $800...
This frightening regime is responsible for this, full stop. They sent this innocent man to potential death, & they need to find him & bring him back. There was no due process for any of these people they kidnapped.
They absolutely have to bring them back. Godamnit. It’s so heartbreaking
I’m sure there are many innocent men they illegally kidnapped. No regard for human life. True monsters. Can’t wait till they get what’s coming to them
You're actually not supposed to illegally kidnap guilty men, either.
Spot on!
If Trump threatens to stop funding El Salvador's prisons, they'll return whoever he wants
Trump threatens countries every where and suddenly with El Salvador he’s powerless?? 🤔
fotus the mighty can't do anything. Well, I'll be!
Despicable assholes can rot in hell …. One day
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#wtf No, no, NO THIS BS MUST STOP. This gaslighting MUST STOP. This inept corrupt lawless regime needs to send Ms. Noem to pick these men back up and give them due process. Support fight for humanity, rule of law: @indivisible.org @aclu.org @aoc.bsky.social @democracyforward.org Protest matters
Bullshit.
Trump is totally out of control, except by Miller, Vought and the rest of the Project 24 dudes. And he’s too stupid to care. This tariff fiasco is going to explode in his face
So what the fuck happens to this innocent man???
Jesus.
Not. The. Right. Answer.
They can send someone to a Salvaorean prison but lacks the ability to order his return? What did they do sell the immigrants to El Salvador? I say, the administration needs to figure it out and get all those people back and quickly!
They are claiming the Judge does not have the authority. It is now a lawless society where only Republicans get to make decisions about everything.
That's even more messed up, that they are saying the judge hasn't the authority .. The immigrants need to be returned, regardless of what they think...Human rights violators need to be carted off to The Hague
Worse yet. They didn’t sell them. They paid El Salvador to take the prisoners, who they are treating as slave labor.
That’s a kidnapping.
Only one man?
I bet he hasn't said that he's going to get him back though.
Administrative Error... Wonder how many more of those will happen from the latest movement by the administration?
Isn't that the fashionable excuse now? "Mistakes were made"? A deflection that acknowledges no responsibility. Seriously. This is some sick, twisted shit. They claim they have the power to deport people, then isn't it logical that they would ALSO have the power to bring people back?
Send Homan in exchange
Incompetence!
This is freaking insane. So, if they send an American, they can’t get us back either?
Our moral compass is broken. We hurt the poor and the sick, we turn away the traveler. Hate thy neighbor. Love is absent from our hearts. Is this who we really want to be?
It sure seems that way. Now they want their disgusting god in our schools too.
This is but one example. How many others have been illegally hauled away? We are on the wrong side of history.
They have all been deported ILLEGALY. Even if some are not legal citizens- they have a right to “Due process”. That would have prevented errors like this….
Absolutely.
All of them have been hauled away illegally. All.Of.Them.
True..
All of them most likely.
There is a barber who is the citizen who has been detained and his family is trying to get him free. He was arrested because of his tattoos. He is not a gang member.
I'm sure he's not the only one. This is unacceptable.
All of them were owed due process. This administration skipped that step.
Definitely not doing anything favourable to the US
Such optimism.
And it's all of them. Even if some of them were actual criminals, through sheer chance, it would still be illegal.
True.
Paywall- can you by chance “gift” the article?
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Unconscionable. "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."
Not sure if I would call Trump a primate. Troglodyte springs to mind.
Fucking appalling
Perhaps the family should file a civil lawsuit against DJT and Kristi Noem et.al. for civil damages of $100 million
donald trying to save face is more important than this man and his family. This is a violation of his and the other wrongly deported individuals human rights! #humanrightsmatter
Shameful
I am not American but I implore you, my neighbours and friends to file a report with your civil rights division. civilrights.justice.gov
In short “screw them. I’m the President.”
Expect more of this, considering they are doing everything in warp speed there’s gonna be fallout and every single thing they touch.
This is v.2.0 of their same BS argument to the court: (once they’ve left our borders the court has no jx).. They know the court has jx over the parties. And they rep a party who the court can order to both turn the plane around and in this case send the plane for pickup. Knowing disingenuous conduct
Whiteout the good food.
Say goodbye to procedural due process. Awful.
That’s outrageous.
With absolutely no due process, how could an innocent man be sent to this Hell-hole? And they are saying they can't bring him back.
Does his family have any legal recourse?
They can and have been doing whatever the fuck they want including defying judges orders. They’ve rendered the “our hands are tied” argument to be worthless. There also better be hearings out the ass about this starting tomorrow.
Mlk Jr. was right. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" And always will.
I suggest a prisoner exchange is in order. An impromptu reality TV show would orchestrate the selection process. Who in the US is most deserving to be sent to El Salvador so this innocent dad can be restored to the US, and reunited with his family. Any suggestions?
Seriously, how can they sleep at night? This is horrendous.
And this is exactly why we have due process….which this administration throws out the fucking window, along with rule of law and the Constitution 🤬
It would be awesome if someone from the administration was accidentally sent to El Salvador. I bet they'd figure out a way to bring someone home then. The brutality of this admin, GOP congress&Trump/Musk is devastating. How much is this costing Americans? @Warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
Despicable!
Their actions are inhumane. They have no souls.
expected but no less horrifying, and you can bet that this was not the only *administrative error.*
Every one of the deported should be brought back for due process. They all have human rights that matter.
This is one of the many reasons why one should never elect Republicans → “he lacks the ability to order the man’s return”. Instead of electing Democrats to fix GOP fuck ups, STOP ELECTING REPUBLICANS.
Amen!
Bullshit
The horror of this story & the evil intent and application of cruelty by this foul administration upon people of color cannot be overlooked and must be found to be acceptable. Due process cannot be destroyed & demolished by a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual rapist & his criminal sychophants.
Put the ICE attorneys in jail until these people are returned!
Add Kristi Noem to that cell.
Krusty Gnome
Under the ironclad “oops, no take backs” section of the U.S. legal code.
We’re in hell
The US is paying the Salvadorans to hold him and if we ask for him back, they have no reason to refuse. However, I’m guessing the Trump administration doesn’t want his return because he will have plenty to say about ICE and what is being done to deportees.
The issue is, as you can guess, money. No money, no way to fight legal battles. Its as easy as an. ICC charge with habeas corpus, and in federal court a grant to re-enter in the way of parole as witness, and for proceedings.
Yes! I hadn't thought of this! This is absolutely why!!!
Or he's already dead.
Since he was a protected individual by an immigration judge, this is probably the case, sadly. Let's hope we're wrong.
Exactly.
Someone from The Hague needs to go interview him.
If the judge intervenes here then could the court intervene in other cases brought before them by those sent to El Salvador? Is that why the us gov is saying the judge doesn’t have standing to order his return?
Can Tom Homan be held criminally liable for this?
They sent him there in error and now they just want him to stay there forever. We’re in so much trouble.
This is why we have due process.
We did. Not anymore, not while Trump is in office.
Amend the complaint to seek 100 million in damages from govt unconstitutional act causing this mess. Then, govt may choose to do the right thing to avoid paying
How many more have been wrongfully deported? This is horrific. This is why every individual is entitled to due process of law.
I would like to read this but there is a paywall. I can’t afford subscriptions to every news source. If you’re going to post paywall articles, would you please do so as a gift article? Thank you.
See above-- I posted a gift link.
Again, thanks. I couldn’t open yours but someone else gifted it.
Thanks, but didn’t work
Pure evil
What do they mean they can't get them back?😡
What's the financial deal with El Salvador?
We Taxpayers are paying them $6 million (for starters)
Bull 💩!!! Figure it TF out!
Have the Muskrat write them a million dollar check and he'll be back in no time. Better than buying votes.
Soooo, are they gonna return him voluntarily and then self-praise their magnanimity?
Since Kristi Noem has such a great relationship with that hellhole prison for a photo opp, I’m certain she could fly back to get that poor man and bring him back to the US. Then repeat for all the others mistakenly deported without due process or egregious sloppiness.
He lacks the ability to order the man’s return. “This is SOME bullshit!!” - Doctor Harry Vanderspeigle
The Regime claims the power to deport without due process, but is powerless to fix their mistake?
Wait, what? How is it that Marc Fogel was repatriated?
I don't believe this bogus nonsense for a minute. They're just trying out this excuse because they want to keep sending anyone they "think" might be a gang member there. Boasberg needs to come down on them hard and magically they will find a way to obey.
Same fucked-up incompetence, different day.
This isn’t incompetence. It’s intentional.
They don’t care about anyone’s life.
I call B.S. we can get them back.
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE #37.
Doesn't this qualify as an Impeachable Offense?
An administrative error?!! Fuck that! Trade Noem for this poor man and get him back to his family.
An administrative error when they arrested Trump and Musk was unfortunate but there isn't anything that can be done about it as they lack the ability. Sad.
He is not the only one. Bring them all back
Exactly!!! We have heard of multiple men now who are innocent & days after they were illegally removed the Trump Administration ADMITTED most had NO CRIMINAL RECORD! BRING THEM ALL BACK!!!
They should all be returned. They were taken illegally.
Then fvcking send Airforce 1 to go get him. The buck stops at the PRESIDENT, this is HIS doing, HE ordered this inhumane shit, FIX IT!
Impeach them all now.
Can we mistakenly send those trump employees there?
And now his story is all over the news, so if the gang sees it ... And how many other "administrative errors" were there?
Trump just keeps making mistakes if he has to fly over himself and get these men that they know shouldn't be there bring this father home
Amen!
due process is so time consuming and boring and alleged immigrants are just simpler to deport. any collateral damage deportations are likely foreign born anyway so no biggie. even if we don’t know what crime they committed, we know in our gut they did something criminal sometime. so good riddance.
But we know for a fact that the people doing this have done something criminal. A lot of criminal somethings, actually.
When I started in a district court clerk's office, the 4 senior judges were appointees of LBJ, JFK, Ike, and Truman. There were a couple of them I'd love to have seen a govt atty say that to.
WTH?
We live in a country we can no longer recognize. When will this madness end?
I have an idea: When this nightmare 4 years is over, let's "wrongfully deport" shadow president Elon Musk to an El Salvador terror prison. He overstayed his student visa & lied in order to remain here. He never intended to be a student. He was here under false pretenses. He is here illegally.
Surely to god, the most powerful nation on earth, with the mantra 'no man left behind' should be able to formulate a strategy or diplomatic action to fix a government mistake - a mistake that, uncorrected, dooms a man to an undeserved life sentence.
The great deal maker Trump can't bring back a father?
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What in the utter fcku is going on? 😦🤬
The judge should call bs on the claim of inability to order the man’s return. They can and must make that order.
Someone needs to DEMAND he return him and any others wrongfully detained! F47 is so full of 💩 there ‘he does not have ability’. Yes he does. Musk?
The only difference between us and 1930s Nazi Germany is that the people being loaded up and shipped to gulags, camps, and holding pens without due process are migrants rather than Jews. It’s a miserable indictment of our country, and we will pay for it dearly.
Sounds like a lawsuit that the American taxpayer will have to cover - not EL0N Menace. Just some father being dehumanized abroad without #dueProcess #MD
They are basically saying, the human beings they kidnap are lost forever?
My takeaway from this argument? Donald Trump is a weaker, stupider man than the president of El Salvador. Our president of 340 million people is helpless before the president of 6 million. Ask him, is he smart enough and brave enough to ask little El Salvador to return one man sent there in error?
Excellent observation! Any chance there’s a journalist with enough integrity and balls to ask him?
There may be some, but I wouldn’t wait for journalists to lead. We should all ask, when talking about current affairs: Doesn’t Trmp seem scared of El Salvador? Can’t any of his advisers help him find a way to ask for El Salvador’s cooperation to fix the United States’ admitted mistake?
When can we seriously talk about impeachment for the Trump Administratpion? These are not ordinary times and they have truly crossed the line into absolute corruption and incompetence. America deserves better.
This is just pure evil. They are so cavalier about it. Like, Oops, our bad too late now. Disgusting.
What? Fix this!
It all is aimed at erasing the rule of law.
No due process means we live in a "trust me bro, I'm big Govt" world... The 2ndA guys are voting with the guy who says, "Potus & LE should have absolute total immunity." If you criticize judges, you should be jailed. Crypto guys are rooting for the guy pardoning the crypto scammers... It's a mad🌎
Seriously, 'lacks the ability to order the man's return'? WTF??? But, Felon34-In-Chief can sign all those bullshit pardons and Executive Orders? 🤬🤬🤬 This is so insane and I pray the judge cuts through this crap with a machete!
Why does the court not hold the attorney(s) in contempt for lying and detain them? Trump’s contract was supposedly to pay El Salvador to house deported migrants in their jails, not to effectively sell them into slavery.
Are we not paying for the confinement of these people? How can they argue to a judge "you can't return him?" Send Pete to pick him up. Or, I bet Krisi has an outfit for that trip.
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Good God. Send them ALL back now!!
You put him there you get him OUT! Wtf
All sales final in this literal human trafficking operation. Enough. We’ve seen enough. Kick these idiots to the curb already.
I thought that Trump is supposed to be the Grand Poohbah of All?
This is kidnapping and human trafficking.
Abhorrent!
Dear state bar who chose to issue a license to the lawyer making this argument: Can you start disbarring scum like this now?
Ask Kristi Noem to trade her $50,000 watch for him.
How convenient however since the United States is paying to El Salvador prison, why can’t they that should be part of the argument!
This could happen to any and every person in the United States, including MAGA. I mean, what happens down the road if an influential MAGA politician wants your business, and you don’t play ball? What would stop them from doing this to you?
Nothing administrative about that at all. No one is administrator. Just a snatch and send. Shameful and unconstitutional.
cc: Chris Van Hollen Angela Alsobrooks Wes Moore Time to step up
Since we can't apparently hold the president responsible, the judge should immediately jail the administration department head who executed the extradition until such time as the man is released from the El Salvadoran jail and returned to America.
Go ahead and levy civil penalties against all the attorneys and the secretaries to be accumulated daily until the man is returned.
Let me get this straight. They're telling a federal judge what he can order? Right.
Not to mention a young Hollywood make-up artist.
An a baker. His crime? An autism awareness tattoo to honor his severely autistic little brother.
So, if someone is deported or arrested by mistake, too bad? Just leave them in prison (one of the worst in the world) ? If Trump can spend 2 million per golf trip to Florida, he can sure find the way to buy that person back!!! What did they do to all of those people? Sell them off to El Salvador?! 🤬
No, our taxes are paying to incarcerate them that hellhole prison.
If he can't return the person sent away on a "clerical error", none of the other prisoners are ever coming back. Their poor families. Is that why they've been sent there- to get rid of them?
Testing the waters to see if they can send anyone and just leave them forever.
Have they sent anyone down there to ask for him back? I didn’t think so. Also I thought the US was besties with el Salvador now. So I don’t buy it. They just don’t want to show it can be done, then they’d have to bring a whole bunch if not all of them back!
Exactly this ☝️
Government sponsored malice and ineptitude hurts humans. It is WRONG.
shameful
hence the need for due process
And… that is EXACTLY why people need due process. Hopefully this sways SCOTUS against the Alien Enemies Act
I think that Americans are starting to realize that they live in an evil country.
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You sent him, you get him back.That's why if they were going to detain immigrants they should've at least kept them in the states and they could be released. If we can get hostages from other countries, surely we can get our own citizens back from a prison we mistakenly sent them to.
The greatest b.s. artist of all time can’t get his mistake corrected? Have musk buy the man back.
If there’s no “list” how MANY MORE ARE THERE THAT SHOULDNT BE THERE? And GET THAT GUY BACK NOW! THEN-ARREST THE GD POTUS
So if we wrongfully deport fElon Musk to El Salvador, we should claim that we are powerless to bring him back.
WTF? If they can send Kristi Noem there to make a Nazi propaganda film then they can send her back to find the guy.
Send Rubio, he signed that contract with them. He can fond him and bring him back.
Then why won’t they order his return ?!
My theory is that to bring him back would be an admission that they made a mistake. They spent days throwing anything against the wall to avoid saying that, as they endangered our troops.
Consequences? 👺
It is no big deal to trump and his nazis and business as usual.
IF YOU CAN SEND HIM THERE, YOU CAN BRING HIM HOME
Have they asked El Salvador to release the man wrongfully sent there?
I am sure due process would have stopped this man's imprisonment but... now there's nothing we can do. Whoops
Horrendous human rights violation that needs to be rectified immediately.
Whisking away an innocent citizen in the middle of night never to be seen again! Didn't we all predict the end of democracy with Trump presidency?
There is never any accidents with the Trump administration. Only a refusal to admit fault.
They are a complete & total fuck up with massive corruption on deck.
I sincerely hope the Stupid, Dumbass Voter’s who voted Trump/GOP into the White House & Congress are eating a hell of a lot of Crow and will be the recipients of much more Karma to come. Stupid, Dumbass Voter’s is the reason why we are here. Surely, these Dumbasses already realize this.
It was FOOLISH for all those Working Class Voter’s who actually believed Trump ever had any intent to lower the prices of eggs & groceries, or reduce Inflation. Every single thing he has done since he took office is Increase prices of everything 10-fold with his Incompetent understanding…
of Tariff’s. On the date of his Inauguration, the U.S. had the lowest Inflation of any other country in the world under Biden; nearly full employment with excellent job growth; and the best performing economy 2-yrs straight of any other country in the world. In only 2-short months, Trump has…
destroyed all of this!!! //End.
Give them hell, judge!
They can't bring this guy home? What about threatening El Salvador with war, as they did with Denmark and Canada?
Doesn't this "defense" open a whole new area of discovery? The contracts btw US & El Salvador, signatories, money changing hands, etc?
Unbelievable! There are no words for the utter lack of competence in this administration.
Oh, HELL no!
Until the enforcers of these illegal actions are held accountable, meaning they could go to jail, this horrific situation will continue, AND IT WILL GET MUCH WORSE! Someone better stop these people!
Can't bring him back? Did they already kill them all?
This is outrageous….Noam and her watch should go back to the prison and get him out NOW!!!’
Puppy killer should be locked in a dog kennel & put on a diet of invisible food
Congress, do your job. Past time to take out the garbage!
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How many more will die in this horrible prison? This is what it really looks like when dog killer isn't around
This is inexcusable, I'm so ashamed that my country is a part of this.
Yes we have always done some shitty things in this country starting with slavery, indigenous genocide Japanese internment, literally nuking a country with atomic bombs, wars, etc. Yet still trying to form a more perfect Union. For all the bad we've done, we've done so much more that's good.
And yes presently we are not only bad but we're getting much worse and I don't see a way out
I'm protesting, making calls and attending town halls.
They are incompetent and evil. 🤬🤬
It is my understanding the Courts can’t demand El Salvador give them back, but Trump as the president can. Is that correct?
I think our President needs to send our embassy officials to that prison and have him released with all the other people they deported illegally.
I feel sick. Again
So we are to believe that Trump could stop the Ukraine-Russia war in 1 day, negotiate hostage releases from Hamas, make Mexico pay for a wall, eradicate the entirety of ISIS, eliminate income tax entirely, but he can’t get a innocent man returned from El Salvador? What a letdown!
Infuriating
Send the person responsible for this mishap to El Salvador prison as a punishment l.
Seriously! We have all made mistakes but this is NOT "a mistake!" If these people had the Due Process they had a RIGHT to, then this would not have happened! Oh yeah,& how dare US send people to a 3rd Country!!!
This needs to be blared out by everyone in congress and by everyone who has a platform and by anyone who cares about justice and the rule of law. Thanks for using your voice, Joyce.
That's illegal. Arrest him.
Despicable
😡😡no words.
Incompetence. Vote them all out in every local and national election. Take back the reigns of power people.
He lacks the ability? Didn’t he allow the Tate brothers into the US?
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU was called a labor camp during WWII. Today, it is called a death camp. The Salvadoran "mega-prison" is a death camp. No one leaves alive. Call it a death 💀 camp.
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Brought to us by the same folks who separated children from parents at the border with no plans of ever reuniting them. Don’t we remember the separated babies and young children crying from inside the detention center? Why, in God’s name, were these ppl ever re-elected?
For white people's entertainment, what else?
So we sent the wrong guy, but we don’t want you to bring him back because…..what, he’s brown?
From the Bulwark Takes podcast, Tim Miller's outraged take on this (" Call your senators!"): pca.st/episode/03b0....
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In this story, Miroff reports: "The deportation of a protected-status holder has even stunned some government attorneys I’ve been in touch with who are tracking the case, who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press. 'What. The. Fuck,' one texted me."
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Due process , rule of law, constitutional rights are what USED to separate the US from so-called shit-hole countries This like this tell me we are Trumpistan now
Make it make sense. A person with integrity would swap themselves for him if they were responsible for it.
I fear for his life.
Maybe if they actually did 💩💩 and gave those people their DUE PROCESS They would’ve known they GRABBED The Wrong Person 🤬🤬
We don’t know if ANY of those people deported are gang members. There was no due process. We do know for sure that at least 2 were not because they’ve been identified. tRump has effectively started a new holocaust.