The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to swiftly remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as a court allows.

The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to swiftly remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as a court allows.

In a series of filings on Friday, administration officials asked a judge to dissolve a preliminary injunction that bars them from re-detaining Abrego Garcia and deporting him.

Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported last March to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison – despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution. The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which he and his attorneys deny.

  • fiat_lux@lemmy.world
    73·
    11 days ago

    So he’s originally from El Salvador.

    1. He was going to be deported, so he designated El Salvador as the destination.
    2. A judge blocked his deportation to El Salvador.
    3. He was “by mistake” deported to El Salvador.
    4. The courts told the administration to bring him back.
    5. The administration said they couldn’t find him. Repeat 4 and 5 up the court ladder.
    6. The Supreme Court told them to bring him back.
    7. He was “found” and brought back to the US to face charges.
    8. He designated Costa Rica as a country he’d be willing to be deported to, because he couldn’t be deported to El Salvador.
    9. The Head of ICE says they have “decided to disregard” that, and they’ve negotiated to deport him to a completely different continent, because it would be “prejudicial to the United States” to deport him to Costa Rica. There is no indication he has any relation to Liberia.

    ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a “direct contradiction to established judicial norms” - as though it’s normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they’re from.

    They’re punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they’re reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      11 days ago
      1. They can’t just deport him to some random country. He has to agree to the location and if he doesn’t the government has something like 90 days to come to an agreement with him. The judge said there’s no chance of him agreeing to go to Liberia within the 90 day window which is why they had to release him.
    • Zron@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 days ago

      What is Liberia even going to do with him?

      Has he been able to request a visa or asylum in Liberia? Are they just going to drop him off and let him get sucked into Liberia immigration system as an undocumented immigrant in another country?

      • fiat_lux@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 days ago

        I suspect Liberia is just going to do something similar to what it was originally designed for - to be the dumping ground for former U.S slaves.

        Being one of the poorest places in the world, I doubt it has a particularly robust immigration system.