White House digs in after mistakenly deporting Maryland father to El Salvador

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

White House digs in after mistakenly deporting Maryland father to El Salvador

The Justice Department is arguing that the U.S. government is powerless to ask the Salvadoran government to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to American custody

Andrew Feinberg
in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday 01 April 2025 19:18 BST

The White House is angrily deflecting questions over how a Salvadoran man who had sought asylum in the United States was sent back to his home country despite having been granted protected legal status.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the deportation by claiming Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a leader of the notorious MS-13 gang who had engaged in human trafficking.

“Foreign terrorists do not have legal protections in the United States of America anymore, and it is within the President's executive authority and power to deport these heinous individuals from American communities,” she said.

Just a day earlier, Justice Department lawyers admitted in a court filing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had mistakenly arrested and deported Abrego Garcia, despite being aware that he had been granted a form of protected legal status called “withholding of removal” in 2019 after an immigration judge found he would likely be targeted by gangs for persecution and torture if sent back to El Salvador, the place he’d fled when he came to the U.S. in 2011.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/el-salvador-maryland-father-garcia-deported-b2725517.html

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/white-house-digs-mistakenly-deporting-174312254.html

[Scrivener7]

1. This could be any of us.

[gab13by13]

3. Yup, Thom Hartmann was talking about this today on freespeechtv.org

Fascists pick the weakest, the marginalized people first and when that becomes accepted then they can snatch up anyone they want and send them off to some hell hole prison, never to be seen again.

Thom gave the example if someone says something bad about Bibi, all Krasnov has to do is claim that person is a Hamas supporting terrorist and simply snatch them up.

That is where we are headed, and headed there fast.

[LoisB]

2. Powerless to ask El Salvador to return someone "mistakenly" sent there but powerful enough

to annex Canada and Greenland? GTFOH

[spanone]

4. Karoline Leavitt is a liar for the liar in chief.

[Bettie]

5. What are the chances that a lot of the people deported to

that prison are already dead?

Seems likely, since it appears to be a brutal place based on a quick search on conditions there.

Of course, that's what the Republicans are looking for: torture and death.

That is who they are.. Maybe not every one of them, but enough to make it true overall.

[kacekwl]

6. Are "judges" going to stop this

lawlessness ? Wake up American we are a shit hole country