A Maryland man was mistakenly sent to a Costa Rican prison
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Abrego was served with a notice to appear in immigration court. He wasn’t kicked out of the U.S. but was given a withholding of removal, which meant he wasn’t deported to El Salvadoran.
The administration used the three flights to quickly deport over three hundred men it accused of being members of MS-13, a gang with connections to El Salvador that originated in Los Angeles, and Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. They were later sent to the notorious mega-prison of CECOT, in El Salvadoran.
The lawyer for AbregoGarcia and his family told NPR the government’s filing was shocking because they admitted everything.
Although Justice Department lawyers acknowledge the mistake in Abrego Garcia’s case, they say there is nothing federal officials can do because he is now in custody of another country.
And White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday doubled down on his deportation, pointing to his links to MS-13 — which Abrego Garcia’s lawyers dispute.
This latest case adds to the growing judicial scrutiny about the deportations, and has even prompted some consternation from one of Trump’s allies. Joe Rogan, the popular host of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast who endorsed Trump last year, this week raised concerns with potential errors in the El Salvador deporations.
Rogan said in his latest show that it was hard to know if the case of Andry was real or not. He was deported as a legal asylumseeker, according to his lawyer.
Court documents detail that when Abrego Garcia was detained last month, he was questioned once more about any gang affiliations and told that he would be brought before a judge.
He said they filed the case last week, before Krisi Noem visited the El Salvadoran prison. “They knew about this case. Noem was put in a secret jail. And now they’re saying that we can’t do anything about it. He said that he was not willing to accept that.
There is a heavy interest in the President’s foreign affairs that outweighs the interests of the people. The Defendants recognize the financial and emotional hardship Abrego was going through but they do not want to return him to the United States because of the public interest. The Justice Department’s filing was made on Monday.
“It’s gross to get fired up about gang members being deported while ignoring citizens who they victimize, so I made a comment,” he said in the post.
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During a Monday interview on Fox News’ Special Report, Noem said that she trusts the government’s intelligence agencies and personnel to target members of the gangs.
“We are doing due diligence to make sure we are removing these criminals from our country so that they do not commit crimes again,” Noem said.
In the filing, Abrego Garcia’s attorney pushes back on claims of a criminal history, noting that he has never been convicted of a crime in the U.S. or any other country.
“Although he has been accused of general ‘gang affiliation,’ the U.S. government has never produced an iota of evidence to support this unfounded accusation,” the suit said.
His lawyers say law enforcement in Prince George’s County in Maryland where he lived never again questioned him regarding MS-13 or accused him of membership in MS-13 after his initial arrest in 2019.
“If they’re allowed to get away with this, then it means that the immigration laws are meaningless, all of them,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. Immigration courts and their orders are meaningless because the government can simply put someone on a plane and violate the court’s orders. That can’t be the case.”
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