Senator Van Hollen Advocates for Wrongfully Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador
Senator Chris Van Hollen met with El Salvador's vice president, advocating for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongfully deported amid controversy.
The case has become one of the most contentious amid a slew of legal battles being waged against the Republican administration that has put the White House on a collision course with the federal courts.
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The Trump administration planned the Alien Enemies Act removals to minimize the chances that a judge might intervene.
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The situation in El Salvador is unjust, and he accused the Trump administration of lying about Abrego Garcia.
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Boasberg had ordered Trump admin officials to halt deportation flights of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador's CECOT prison.
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Democrats have seized on the case to highlight what they say is President Donald Trump’s disrespect for the courts and as base voters have encouraged them to fight harder against Trump’s policies.
Maryland senator meets with El Salvador's vice president in push for Abrego Garcia's release
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Abrego Garcia's case has sparked a series of court proceedings, during which a federal judge ordered the government to return him to the U.S. from the El Salvador supermax prison, CECOT.
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The unfolding controversy is part of a broader, resistance-oriented approach many Democrats have embraced in recent months — a strategy that has sparked internal party tensions.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has said that Garcia’s removal was an “administrative error,” acknowledging it had been aware of the court-ordered protection and failed to flag it properly on the flight manifest.
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The final piece of this is that the Trump administration, as I mentioned, is paying the government of El Salvador.
A Democratic Senator Discusses His Trip to Find Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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The ruling by a federal judge that it is “probable” that the Trump administration committed criminal contempt when it refused to turn around El Salvador-bound planes carrying some 250 aliens from Venezuela accused of gang membership is a dramatic escalation in the clash between the 47th president and the judiciary.
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In other words, give the migrants sent to a foreign gulag the relief and rights they were entitled to in the first place — or be prepared to find yourself as a defendant.
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This is an unsustainable and unjust moment, and so it cannot continue this way.
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Judge Boasberg's decision to begin contempt proceedings escalates a clash between the White House and the judiciary over the president's powers.
US judge rules he could hold Trump administration in contempt
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Wednesday’s order constitutes the first real step toward accountability for the lawless behavior of the Trump administration.
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This is an unsustainable and unjust moment.
Van Hollen in El Salvador: 'Open the door of CECOT and let this innocent man walk out'
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The White House is amplifying domestic abuse allegations against 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who has been deported to his native El Salvador, as Democrats unrestrainedly defend him against accusations that he is a member of the MS-13 Gang.
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Van Hollen reiterated that none of these allegations were not made in court and no charges related to the allegations have been issued.
Senator heads to El Salvador to find Maryland migrant deported erroneously by Trump
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The March deportation of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident, has become a flashpoint in the fight over the Trump administration’s hardline deportation push.
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The protective orders are in stark contrast to what Vasquez now says about Abrego Garcia.
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Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador's vice president in push for prisoner's release
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Boasberg’s ruling gives the administration a final opportunity to comply, but warns that failure to do so will lead to specific officials who defied his March 15 order being identified and referred for prosecution, per The Hill.
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It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens.
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The Court ultimately determines that the Government's actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.
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The move by Boasberg marks an escalation in a battle between the judicial and executives branches of government over a president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities.
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Boasberg's ruling came a day after another judge presiding over the case of a Maryland man the government says it mistakenly deported to El Salvador suggested she's weighing contempt proceedings over the administration's failure to comply with her orders to "facilitate" his return to the U.S.
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Boasberg’s ruling follows an April 3 hearing in Washington, D.C., at which he pressed the government about its compliance with his orders.
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The fight over Abrego Garcia has also played out in contentious court filings, with repeated refusals from the government to tell a judge what it plans to do, if anything, to repatriate him.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen Goes to El Salvador to Push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Release
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That's a wild way to describe Abrego Garcia being wrongly deported to CECOT, El Salvador's worst and most brutal prison, despite a judge granting him withholding of removal in 2019, having found his fear of persecution in El Salvador credible and protecting him from exactly this fate.
The administration is playing dumb
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Yet he is now languishing in a Salvadorean prison as one of more than 200 migrants deported without due process when Mr Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month.
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To our mind, the justices have no one but themselves to blame for dragging this out.
Editorial: Trump says he respects the Supreme Court. So return Abrego Garcia, Mr. President
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It’s not unprecedented at all for the executive to write executive orders or to issue policies that at the end of the day are found to be unlawful.
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However, deporting a U.S. citizen would not be as straightforward as deporting foreigners.
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The Administration’s intransigence in the face of court orders, which has been a disturbing constant of the past several months, raises questions about whether the Supreme Court will put pressure on the Administration to follow the law.
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Summary
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis investigates the Trump administration's failure to comply with a Supreme Court ruling on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador. Garcia, a Maryland legal resident, remains in prison following his wrongful deportation in March. Recently, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen visited El Salvador to advocate for Garcia’s release, claiming political motivation behind his imprisonment. He met with Vice President Félix Ulloa, who reiterated that El Salvador cannot return Garcia due to claims of gang affiliation. Judge James Boasberg found probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration for not reversing deportation flights.
Perspectives
The Trump administration is resisting a federal judge's order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite the Supreme Court ruling that he was wrongly deported and should be brought back to the U.S.
Judge Paula Xinis has ordered an expedited discovery process to determine whether the administration is complying with the court order, indicating dissatisfaction with their lack of action regarding Garcia's return.
There is a significant dispute over whether the administration is acting in good faith, with claims and counterclaims regarding Garcia's alleged gang affiliation and the legal implications of his deportation.
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