Kilmar Ábrego García: Deported Salvadoran will never live back in US, says White House
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The White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Ábrego García was in a gang, which his lawyer denies.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28329298

The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month to an El Salvador mega-prison.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang.

Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.

A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.

    • RivalarrivalEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      The courts haven’t even issued a deportation order. The only court order relevant to Garcia is the withholding order in 2019, which should habe kept him in the US. There is no deportation order. He was not deported. He was sent to El Salvador under an illegal use of the Alien Enemies act, not a deportation order.

      The courts have not said that he could be sent anywhere else. Attempting to send him anywhere else violates US and International law, as well as human rights. The only place the US can send him is Maryland.

      Every day he is not in Maryland, the US government is going to be paying him damages. A lot of damages. He and his family are going to get rich off of this. How much are you going to pay him?

      • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.comMEnglish
        15·
        4 days ago

        Deportation order was already issued. You keep thinking the order prevented deportation. It doesn’t. It prevents deportation to El Salvador.

        • RivalarrivalEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          Deportation order was already issued.

          There was no deportation order.

          Not in 2019. Not in 2025. This is factually untrue.

          ICE initiated proceedings in 2019, but no deportation order ever arose from those proceedings. The conclusion of those proceedings was the withholding order, not a deportation order.

          • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.comMEnglish
            15·
            4 days ago

            lol. Yes it did. Many you don’t know the laws at all. You can’t have a withholding order without a deportation order. The two are intertwined.

            • RivalarrivalEnglish
              4·
              4 days ago

              If they want to deport him to somewhere other than El Salvador, they will have to restart the 2019 proceedings again. They will have to get a fresh order specifying the new country. Which they can’t get because it’s a human rights violation, and a violation of the 8th Amendment.

              There is no order that allows what you are talking about. There is no valid order allowing for him to be taken anywhere but Maryland.

              If they want to start proceedings to deport him to some other nation (assuming there is a third nation to which he has some sort of legal ties), they have to start over as if he had never been sent to El Salvador.

              • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.comMEnglish
                13·
                4 days ago

                They will have to get a fresh order specifying the new country (which they can’t get because it’s a human rights violation).

                That is false. If you’d read the court ruling you’d know that’s false. The only issue is that he was sent to El Salvador. As of yet, nobody else has agreed to take him and nobody has asked.

                Most likely they’ll return him to the United States and he will stay in prison here or they’ll ship him to gitmo.

                • RivalarrivalEnglish
                  3·
                  4 days ago

                  If you’d read the court ruling you’d know that’s false.

                  The court did not rule on that issue. You’re not getting that from the court. You’re getting that from the Trump administration. Specifically, from Trump’s Chief of Staff, misrepresenting the issue to the press.

                  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.comMEnglish
                    12·
                    4 days ago

                    From chat gpt

                    Yes, under U.S. immigration law, Kilmar Abrego Garcia could legally be deported to a country other than El Salvador, provided that country agrees to accept him. This is because his “withholding of removal” status specifically prohibits deportation to El Salvador due to the risk of persecution there, but it does not prevent removal to other nations.

                    However, in Garcia’s case, the U.S. government has not identified any third country willing to accept him, nor has it pursued such an option. Instead, he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March 2025, despite the legal prohibition against doing so. This action was later acknowledged by the U.S. government as an “administrative error.” 

                    Following his deportation, Garcia has been detained in El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), a maximum-security prison. Despite a U.S. Supreme Court order directing the government to facilitate his return, both U.S. and Salvadoran authorities have yet to act on this directive. 

                    In summary, while it’s legally permissible to deport Garcia to a third country other than El Salvador, such an action would require that country’s agreement to accept him, which has not occurred in this case