Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador this week to get answers about the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man Donald Trump’s administration illegally sent to a mega-prison in the Central American nation and is now refusing to bring back to the U.S. despite a Supreme …
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The Donald Trump administration’s unlawful removal of hundreds of migrants to a gulag in El Salvador — and their subsequent legal battle to keep them there — have showcased the president’s clear disregard for human rights and the United States court system. They are planning to do it again. Most …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) returned to the United States on Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom Donald Trump’s administration illegally shipped to a prison in El Salvador and refuses to bring home, in open defiance of a Supreme Court order. “It’s good to be …
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An appeals court smacked down Donald Trump’s latest effort to avoid complying with directives from the Supreme Court and a district court, which both ordered the administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man it illegally sent to a notorious torture prison in El Salvador. A three-judge panel on …
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Wilmer Gutiérrez last saw his son the morning of Feb. 24. Later that day, his nephew called to tell him that 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez had been arrested just steps from their shared apartment in the Bronx. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our …
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Donald Trump’s deportation agenda has drawn its focus around Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the administration illegally shipped to an infamous torture prison in El Salvador — an action they admitted was a mistake, citing an “administrative error.” The Supreme Court has since ruled that the administration must bring …
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A federal judge has ruled that there is “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its removal of hundreds of migrants from the United States to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order to halt their deportation. On Wednesday, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge James …
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Lawyers from the Department of Justice clashed with a Maryland district court judge as they once again resisted compliance with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador. Ahead of the hearing, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura …
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President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process. While taking questions from the …
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Days after the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to “facilitate” the return of a man his administration illegally shipped to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador — allegedly the result of an “administrative error” — Trump’s administration is saying it has no responsibility to actually bring him home. Trump said …
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