Trump Says He’s Powerless to Return Deported Migrant. But He’s Done So Before.
President Trump says he is powerless to retrieve a man who was deported because of an administrative error. But he has done so before.
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President Trump says he is powerless to retrieve a man who was deported because of an administrative error. But he has done so before.
Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.
But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.
President Trump’s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
Mr. Trump has found in President Nayib Bukele a willing partner in a plan to step up the removal of migrants from the United States with little or no due process.
The Justice Department’s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump’s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.
Clashes — both inside the courtroom and over the department’s refusal to comply with her demand for a road map to release Mr. Abrego Garcia — left open the possibility of a standoff in the future.
It was the latest in a series of moves to scrap or soften punishments against President Trump’s supporters, including members of the violent mob that attacked the Capitol.
The Justice Department said in a filing Friday that the academy changed its policy to adhere to an executive order issued in January by President Trump.