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Griffin Eckstein

DOJ's Abrego Garcia defense falls short

The Trump administration’s latest bid to keep mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadorian prison was swatted down in a federal appeals court on Thursday, intensifying the legal pressure to facilitate the Maryland man’s return.

In a Thursday ruling, Fourth Circuit Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III said the Trump administration was “asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.”

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