A federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to take immediate steps to return a Maryland man who was deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison by mistake, setting up another high-stakes clash between the White House and the courts, reported The New York Times.
"This was an illegal act," U.S. Federal District
Judge Paula Xinis told Justice Department lawyers at a federal court hearing in
Greenbelt, Maryland about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who lived in
the U.S. legally and had a work permit. Abrego Garcia was arrested and deported last month — despite having been
granted protection by an immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented
him from being deported to El Salvador.
Judge Xinis ordered the government to return Abrego Garcia
to the U.S. by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 7. She said keeping him in El
Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.
"From the moment he was seized, it was
unconstitutional," Judge Xinis said during the hearing. "If there
isn't a document, a warrant, a statement of probable cause, then there is no
basis to have seized him in the first place. That's how I'm looking at
it," the judge said.
The Trump administration filed an appeal to the ruling to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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