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Ilya Somin

Supreme Court Rules Trump Administration Must "Facilitate" Return of Illegally Deported Salvadoran Migrant

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, led by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (NA)

 

Tonight, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump Administration must "facilitate" the return of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it had illegally deported to brutal imprisonment in El Salvador's awful CECOT prison (despite his never having been convicted of any crime). The Court largely affirmed earlier rulings by the district court and Fourth Circuit. This is an important win for immigrant rights. The justices rejected the administration's dangerous position that it can deport and imprison anyone it wants - including US citizens - and then be immune from judicial review, so long as the incarceration is done by a foreign state, even one acting at the direction of the US government.

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