Trump Administration Won't Give Up Info On Location Of Deported Maryland Man
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Source: Huff Post
Apr 11, 2025, 01:43 PM EDT | Updated 21 minutes ago
The Trump administration must begin providing daily updates about the location of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was deported last month and sent to a prison in El Salvador known for its rampant human rights abuses, a judge ordered Friday.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis expressed frustration with Justice Department lawyers during a short hearing Friday after they flatly told her they did not have any information to provide about the 29-year-old man’s location. “The Supreme Court has spoken quite clearly and yet I can’t get an answer,” Xinis said, referring to an order issued by the high court late Thursday.
Xinis directed the Justice Department to provide daily updates not just about where Abrego Garcia actually is, but about what efforts the government has undertaken to bring him back to the States and what it plans to do going forward. “We are going to make a record of everything the government is doing and not doing,” Xinis told Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign.
On Thursday night, the Supreme Court ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return. That was not a direct order to force his return to America, but the high court noted it wanted the district court judge to ask the DOJ to clarify, “with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs” what steps the administration has so far taken to bring the father of three back to the U.S.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-updates-deported-maryland-man_n_67f951fee4b05c9df5d3940e
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.61.0_1.pdf
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Do you really think this judge is complicit in this ongoing wholesale destruction of our representative democracy and the freedoms that we hold dear?
I do not see that.
What is it that you see?
The judge is piss off at the trump DOJ
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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.....
The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday.
Xinis, an Obama appointee, said that without any information — or even an acknowledgment that the administration had done anything at all — she could only conclude that the administration had “done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
“There’s an easy way to combat that,” she said, “and that’s just to tell me whether you’ve done anything and if so, what.”
Xinis’ new directive requires the daily updates to come from an administration official with “personal knowledge” of efforts to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But Justice Department officials said they may not be prepared to comply with her demands until at least Monday......
Xinis told Ensign that if Trump administration officials were depriving him of information she demanded, then “you don’t have full and effective contact with your clients.”
