Inside the Trump Administration’s Deportation of a Migrant to El Salvador
Immigration officers asked Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia if he was a gang member, and refused to believe him when he denied it, according to court papers.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Immigration officers asked Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia if he was a gang member, and refused to believe him when he denied it, according to court papers.
The judge, James E. Boasberg, said he was likely to wait until next week to rule on whether the White House was in contempt of court for having ignored his order.
The case has raised questions not only about how the man could have ended up on a plane to El Salvador, but also about why the administration has apparently not moved to correct its mistake.
The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.
Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.
The court papers suggest that the administration has set a low bar for seeking the removal of the Venezuelan migrants, whom officials have described as belonging to the street gang, Tren de Aragua.
The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.
In the Trump era, the definition of an official secret depends on whatever works best for the president.
The administration is invoking an extraordinary national security power, the state secrets privilege, under highly unusual circumstances.
By citing the act, the administration seems to be highlighting its aggressive posture without taking steps that might be deemed to violate a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.