WASHINTON — On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia must be returned to the United States after the Trump administration claimed an "administrative error" saw him wrongly sent to a prison in El Salvador before declaring that they had no authority to return him.
SCOTUS upheld a lower court judge's order requiring the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man whom the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.
Last week, US district judge Paula Xinis issued an order that the administration must "facilitate and effectuate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return in response to a lawsuit filed by him and his family challenging the legality of the deportation.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned 9-0 decision, said the judge’s order "properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."
The court added that the additional requirement to "effectuate" his return was unclear and may have exceeded the judge’s authority. The justices directed Xinis to clarify the directive "with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs."
Despite the Trump administration's claims of violent gang criminals, of the hundreds of people who have been rounded up and sent to what has been described as a "concentration-camp-like prison" bewtween 75 and 90 percent of them have not been shown to have a criminal record and, of those who did, almost all of which were for nonviolent offenses.
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lib224
We are now funding a concentration camp in another country and sending people there without due process. More than a little bit like Nazi Germany.
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Cat L
I've repeatedly read there are many people who have been sent there that have no criminal record or tie to gangs. The highest number cited was over 170. If that is true, the why is this happening? Marketing? Sadism? WTF.
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klmsinc
Liberalism VS Conservatism
Here is the issue!
Not Trump
We are not in Nazi Germany, We re in the United states of America which is not a Democracy but a Represented Republic.
Say the Pledge of Allegiance and you will hear those words. If you don't remember, try an Engine Search.
If anybody enters this Country by means that are not legal, that would make him illegal thus by conservatism a criminal BUT by Liberalism it defines him as abused!!!
Take your pick folks, that is what the argument is.
W[here do you get your viewpoint?
I don't know if this person is legal or not but I have a trust that the system will work it out,
We have a wonderful functioning system. It just takes a moral country to make it work!
Where are you personally?
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