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Man deported to El Salvador will never live back in US, says White House (www.bbc.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There was no deportation order. There was a withholding order: and order prohibiting his deportation.

He could be sent anywhere else if they agreed to take him.

It is a human rights violation, as well as a violation of US and international law, to "deport" someone to a third party nation. What you are describing is completely unlawful for both the US and the hypothetical third-party nation.

There was no deportation order. Deportation is a criminal justice matter and can only be ordered by a judge. Trump invoked the alien enemies act specifically so he could repatriate (not deport) "enemy" aliens without involving the courts. He wants to treat immigrants as enemy combatants; invaders that can be dealt with by the military as combatants or POWs rather than as criminal defendants in court. Here, he fucked up because this person already had a withholding order permitting his presence.