Saturday, 19 April 2025

Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY Rules That Trump Admin Must Bring Back Alleged MS-13 Gang Member From El Salvador

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In an unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court has just ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States from El Salvador prison.

None of the SCOTUS judges dissented from the decision.

Last month, Garcia was deported along with a fleet of other violent illegal alien gang members to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal prison.

The media is reporting that Garcia is an innocent man and father who was mistakenly deported.

However, the Trump administration argues that that isn’t quite true and he’s actually part of the dangerous MS-13 gang.

Here are the details:

Politico reported on the ruling:

The Supreme Court is requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador due to what officials described as an “administrative error.”

The justices turned down the administration’s request to set aside a judge’s order that U.S. officials seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release and return to the U.S., after he was flown to El Salvador despite an immigration-court order that he not be sent there due to the threat of persecution by a local gang.

The judge’s order “properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, without any noted dissent.

NBC News added more details:

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the Trump administration is required to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison.

The court partly granted and partly rejected an emergency request filed by the Justice Department contesting a judge’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be retrieved from a prison in El Salvador where he was sent on March 15 along with alleged Venezuelan gang members.

“The rule of law won today. Time to bring him home,” Andrew Rossman, one of Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, said in an email.

The decision means the administration does not immediately have to try to return Abrego Garcia to the United States because a judge-imposed deadline has already expired but “should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps,” the unsigned decision said.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The district court judge may have exceeded her authority in saying the government had to not just “facilitate” but also “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return, the court added. The judge has to “clarify its directive, with due regard to the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs,” the court order said.

There were no dissenting votes, but the court’s three liberal justices signed onto a separate statement authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor saying they agreed that “the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia with all the process to which he would have been entitled had he not been unlawfully removed to El Salvador.”

But Sotomayor added that she believed Chief Justice John Roberts should not have issued a temporary stay on Monday that meant the deadline for the government to act was missed.

Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison on March 15 as part of the Trump administration’s aggressive and heavily contested plan to send alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua there.

Immigration officials allege Abrego Garcia, who entered the United States illegally, is a member of the MS-13 gang but have conceded he should not have been sent to El Salvador, his country of birth, calling it an “administrative error.”

Abrego Garcia lived in Beltsville, Maryland, with his wife and three children, all of whom have special needs. He came to the United States to escape gang violence, his lawyers say.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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