Trump DOJ using 'vague speculations' to keep wrongfully deported man out of US with 'no actual evidence,'
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Source: Law & Crime
Apr 9th, 2025, 4:52 pm
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was mistakenly shipped off to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations under an 18th-century wartime authority — have fired back at the Justice Department over its claim that the Salvadoran government “may have its own compelling reasons to detain” the Maryland father that bar the U.S. from bringing him back.
“It points to no evidence — only pure conjecture about El Salvador’s general views on criminal enforcement,” wrote Abrego Garcia’s legal team in a Wednesday response to claims made by DOJ lawyers in a U.S. Supreme Court filing.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday afternoon temporarily halted a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, which gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations, which have since been blocked by a federal judge, without providing due process to those being flown out of the country.
Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, was in the U.S. with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are both U.S. citizens.
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Full headline: ‘Nothing more than a figment of its imagination’: Trump DOJ using ‘vague speculations’ to keep wrongfully deported man out of US with ‘no actual evidence,’ his lawyers say
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/355094/20250409011403783_2025.04.09%20Respondents%20Mot%20for%20Leave%20to%20File%20Sur-Reply.pdf