WASHINGTON – Secretary John Roberts temporarily suspends lower court orders calling for a return to Trump administration Maryland man Who was it He was arrested by mistake By 11:59pm on Monday I returned to the US and moved to El Salvador.
Roberts’ administrative stay gave the Supreme Court more time to consider the matter, saying “a further order of the signatories or courts is pending.” He issued the order hours after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene. Legal battle Last month through the removal of Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia.
The request for emergency relief from the High Court came as he faced a court order at 11:59pm to return Abrego Garcia, who was deported to Salvador’s Super Max prison on March 15, to the United States despite a 2019 protection order. It should have been prevented He was sent to the country.
The Trump administration called on the Supreme Court to block the district court’s order, claiming it was “deadly failing” because it couldn’t force it to “comply with the federal judge’s bid.”
“The Constitution accuses the President, not the federal district courts, of acts of foreign diplomacy and protecting the nation from foreign terrorists, including implementing their removal,” Attorney General D. John Sauer wrote in his filing.
Attorney General Pam Bondy said in a statement that the Justice Department welcomed the Supreme Court’s stay “when we continue to fight this case and continue to protect the enforcement unit from judicial overreach.”
Abrego Garcia’s battle over the removal It sparked widespread attention and anger after the Trump administration Approved by court filing His deportation to El Salvador last week was “management errors” and “surveillance.” His 29-year-old father was taken from the United States on a series of deportations that carried hundreds of people into the infamous Salvador prison known as CECOT.
These flights are at the heart of a well-known independent court battle that includes deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, including President Trump’s attempts to use alien enemy law during the war. The Supreme Court is now weighing other requests from the Department of Justice to allow authorities to resume deportation using rarely voked authorities.
Court records show that Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, came to the United States illegally in 2011 when he was 16 years old. In 2019 he was arrested alongside three other Maryland men and was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities while an immigration judge investigated his case.
During the bond hearing prior to the immigration judge, the Department of Homeland Security submitted evidence claiming that “a proven, reliable source of information” confirmed Abrego Garcia had a relationship with the MS-13 gang. The judge rejected a request for release on the bonds endorsed by the Immigration Appeals Committee.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers claim that the only evidence of his alleged gang bond comes from the fact that he was an active member of MS-13 and wore a Chicago bull hat and sweatshirt when he was arrested. They also said Abrego Garcia had no criminal history. “He has never been charged or convicted of criminal charges in the United States, El Salvador or any other country,” his lawyer wrote.
Abrego Garcia was released from federal custody after another immigrant judge granted El Salvador “withholding tax for removal.” In the order, the judge discovered that if Abrego Garcia returns to El Salvador, he would likely face persecution by local gangs.
Abrego Garcia’s wife He told CBS News Her husband had been working as a sheet metal worker, attending regular check-in with immigration authorities after he was released. However, he was arrested again on March 12th. He questioned his relationship with the group that Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated as a “focal terrorist organization” in February, saying that the Trump administration is his “prominent role” in MS-13.
Abrego Garcia was later transferred to a Texas detention facility, his wife said, and was placed on a flight to El Salvador on March 15.
The Trump administration admitted that it was wrong to take Abrego Garcia away to El Salvador, but opposed efforts to bring him back to the US due to suspected partnership with MS-13. The Justice Department also argues that it does not have the jurisdiction of Abrego Garcia as it is in detention of the Salvador government.
A federal judge in Maryland held a hearing on the challenge of Abrego Garcia’s removal. ordered government He will be returned to the United States by 11:59pm on Monday. During the lawsuit, Justice Department lawyer Elles Roubeni admitted that Abrego Garcia “should not be removed” and said he was “frustrated” by the lack of information from the Trump administration about why Abrego Garcia was arrested by immigration authorities. That’s what Leuvenie was like. Being assigned to administrative leave In the wake of the hearing.
Judge Paula Sinnis; I have issued a scathing opinion Sunday said the federal government “confessed a serious mistake” to “shock your conscience.”
The Trump administration appealed the district court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Fourth Circuit and asked to quickly place Sinis’ order calling for Abrego Garcia to be put back on hold.
Sauer then sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court. Just before the Fourth Circuit rejected the administration’s request to step into the conflict, his request to the High Court came to block Xinis’ decision.
The Attorney General, who was confirmed in the role last week, called the district court’s decision “unprecedentedly vulnerable,” claiming that the lower court “stolen control of diplomatic relations, treating the administrative division as subordinate diplomats, and seeking that the United States is seeking to request that America be a member of a foreign terrorist organization tonight.
