Despite the judge’s order, I will not say whether it promotes the return of a man who was misused
The Trump administration was called a federal judge on Saturday and Maryland man was calledI was deported by mistakeLast month I remained trapped in aNotorious prisonIn El Salvador.
However, the government submissions did not address the judge’s request to detail the stages the administration had taken to return. Kilmer Abrego Garcia To the US. The government only said that 29-year-old Abrego Garcia is under the authority of the Salvadoran government.
The location of Abrego Garcia was confirmed to the court by Michael G. Kozak. Michael G. Kozak identified himself in his submission as a “senior department employee” of the State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau.
The application comes the day after a US government lawyer struggled at the hearing to provide US District Judge Paula Sinis with information about Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration must bring him back.
Cinis issued an order Friday requiring the administration to disclose Abrego Garcia’s “current physical location and management status.”
“My understanding based on the official report from the San Salvador embassy is that Abrego Garcia is currently being held at the Terrorist Confinement Centre in El Salvador,” the Kozak statement said. “He lives in that facility and is safe. He is detained in accordance with the sovereignty of the national authorities of El Salvador.”
Kozak’s statement did not address the latter requirement of the judge.
Sinis got mad on Friday due to lack of information from the government.
“Where is he and whose authority is he?” the judge asked during the hearing. “I’m not seeking the secrets of the state. All I know is that he’s not here. The government was forbidden from sending him to El Salvador. Now I’m asking a very simple question.
The judge repeatedly asked government lawyers what was done to return Abrego Garcia, saying, “Did they do something?”
Deputy Attorney General Drew Ensign told Xinis he had no personal knowledge of the actions or plans to return Abrego Garcia. However, he told the judge that the government is “actively considering what it can do,” and told the Abrego Garcia case that it includes three cabinet bodies and important coordination.
Before the hearing ended, Sinis ordered the United States to provide daily status updates on its plans to return Abrego Garcia.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment Saturday evening.
Abrego GarciaI live in the USCourt records show that for about 14 years he was building, he was married and raised three children with disabilities.
If he is returned, he will face allegations urging him to expel: a 2019 charge from local Maryland police that he is a member of the MS-13 gang.
Abrego Garcia denied the allegations and was not charged with the crime, his lawyer said. A US immigration judge subsequently protected him from deportation to El Salvador as he likely faced persecution by local gangs that terrified his family.
Anyway, the Trump administration deported him there.I’ll explain the mistakeAs “management error,” however, he claims he was on the MS-13.
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