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Ilya Somin

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back in the United States

Abrego Garcia
Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (NA)

 

Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia—illegally deported by the Trump Administration to imprisonment in El Salvador without any due process—is now back in the US. After the Supreme Court ruled that the Administration had to "facilitate" his return, the administration repeatedly insisted they had no power to do so, and otherwise verged on defying court orders. But as Trump admitted, in reality the administration could have secured his return any time they wanted to. Salvadoran President Nayeb Bukele was  keeping Abrego Garcia in prison only because of arrangement with Trump, under which the US paid him to detain Garcia and hundreds of other migrants deported without due process, in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

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