Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US
Source: Politico
The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the United States, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into the country if he makes it back from a high-security prison in El Salvador.
Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that they don’t interpret the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling — that the administration “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release — as obligating the administration to do anything more than adjust his immigration status to admit him if El Salvador’s government chooses to release him.
With El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele set to meet President Donald Trump Monday, DOJ attorneys argued the courts have no power to require the administration to engage with the Salvadoran government to reach a diplomatic solution. They contend such a potential order would amount to a violation of the separation of powers and an intrusion into what they allege is unfettered presidential power to conduct foreign relations.
“All of those requested orders involve interactions with a foreign sovereign — and potential violations of that sovereignty,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in a seven-page submission to U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis. “[A] federal court cannot compel the Executive Branch to engage in any mandated act of diplomacy or incursion upon the sovereignty of another nation.”
The administration’s position suggests officials do not view the Supreme Court’s order as compelling them to seek Abrego Garcia’s return. The Salvadoran native entered the country illegally around 2011 and had been living in Maryland. The Trump administration has admitted it deported him to El Salvador in violation of a 2019 immigration court order barring his deportation to that country. Though Abrego Garcia was denied asylum, a judge found he could not be sent to his home country because of a legitimate fear of persecution by a local gang.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-administration-00288502
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They KIDNAPPED this man! He is now basically being tortured in a hellish prison. I can't believe they would get a pass on this.
So their argument is that they can (deliberately) screw up, and if the person is deported before the violation is caught, then they get a free pass and have no obligation to remediate.
Bet they can’t wait to do this with citizens, too.
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I hope the rich nazi motherfuckers get what's coming to them when people figure out their semi-legal foreign contract deportations are effectively a death sentence, or at least assumably-permanent exile with no external communication, and the F47 team can "deport" anyone it wants, regardless of charge or evidence. That's more-than-sufficient cause for a revolution, not to mention a trade embargo from 90% of the world.
(Imperial remote prison on Narkina 5, Andor S1E8-10)
