In a normal nation governed by the rule of law – not the America of Donald Trump, that is to say – the deportation erroneous by the government of a father of Maryland to a Goulag Salvador, in violation of the ordinance of a federal immigration judge, could have been easily resolved.
LO! Four days after the Supreme Court last Thursday unanimously ordered The government to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States, president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, was to be planned in the oval office. Bukele could simply have given the worker in the sheet metal worker an elevator at home to his wife and three children, all American citizens, as part of the Salvado -ran entourage.
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5:35 p.m. April 16, 2025A previous version of this article said that President Trump had repeated his wishes to send citizen criminals to foreign prisons on Fox News. It was during an interview “Fox Noticias”.
This is not what happened on Monday, of course. The bukele dressed in nonchalantly, which describes itself “The coolest dictator in the world“, Arrival in place” with just the clothes of the promoter of the Miami club on his back “, like Jon Stewart hinder. Then we saw the sorry show of two presidents of Strongmen, Trump and Bukele, side by side in the oval office declaring that he is helpless to restore the freedom of Abrego Garcia. They smiled with sufficient, both on the joke. In addition, they affirmed without evidence, he is a terrorist.
In truth, Abrego Garcia and hundreds of other men were sent to the California hotel in El Salvador, the center of confinement of terrorism,, Without regular procedure – charges, hearings, evidence, juries or judges. The administration called them “the worst of the worst”, however several media surveys have found that few deportees, including Abrego Garcia, had legal records other than offenses in immigration law, and less links with the gangs that Trump has appointed as terrorist groups.
The case of Abrego Garcia is particularly blatant. The Trump team admitted to the court that it should not have been shipped to Salvador,, the only country that the federal order In 2019, said he had to not be sent to, given the “Clear probability of future persecution. “” Actuallythat the federal immigration judge revealed that Greo Garcia and his family were a gang victimsUplided several times under the threat of death in Salvador. The first Trump administration did not call on this 2019 order, just as the second did not do.
No wonder as another judge, we have. Court Judge Paula Xinis, ordered The government to report daily on the well-being of Abrego Garcia and its attempts to return it, so far in vain. “Nothing was done. Nothing ”, she protest Tuesday, before order An extraordinary two -week survey on the “magnificent” challenge of the administration. Meanwhile, the administration said in a judicial That if Abrego Garcia had returned, it would hold it and would take it again.
As bad as all this, the Bro-Fest Trump-Bukele in the Oval Office practically confirmed that there was worse to come. The two men joked – joke – First in private (we know thanks to the post of Bukele de the video) then openly to journalists that El Salvador should build more megaprisons to house unwanted American citizens – “cultivators”, said Trump a few times, so satisfied with his brand. “You have to build around five other places,” he told Bukele, “yes, the next phase,” said Bukele. The aids have cracked.
Despite the Yucks, Trump was serious: he said Before that He would love to send “criminals” citizens to foreign prisons. And he repeated his wishes on Tuesday On “Fox Noticias”. These citizen deportations would violate another Decision of the Supreme CourtFrom 1936, not to mention the fundamental expectations of American justice.
“Trump is halfway to make America a police state” was the title In financial time the next morning. The only questionable word is “halfway”. Among the other two branches of the allegedly co-equal government, Trump has intimate in the congress and now openly holds the federal courts, including the supreme.
This is the confirmation of a constitutional crisisAs the nation has never seen, except in Other land. More evidence: Wednesday, another federal district judge, James E. Boasberg, judge This “probable cause exists to find the government in criminal contempt” for its “deliberate contempt” of its March order so that the planes transport the migrants which transport the migrants to El Salvador.
Monday's performance in the oval office was the most scary since Trump and Vice-President JD Vance assembled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28 and now the office New bling cry – All the gold ornaments, walls, cherubs, executives and final tables – is a metaphor for desecration by Trump of this sanctuary. Aid of aid, including Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi and Secretary of State Marco Rubiostacked with More lies About Abrego Garcia. For example: the big lie Of the executable Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House, which the Supreme Court had ruled 9 to 0 rocket On X as a “scandalous false declaration”.
Talk about gas lighting. The Supreme Court declared this about the ordinance of the lower federal court to return Abrego Garcia: it “properly obliges the government to” facilitate “the release of Abrego Garcia de la Garde in Salvador and to ensure that its case is treated as it would have been if it had been badly sent to El Salvador.”
It seems quite clear to almost anyone who is not on Trump's pay, but practiced with caution that the order of two pages of the judges was. And yet, with Trump, pressed and appreciating the controversy – it is better to distract from his Calamite trade war – it is difficult to see how Abrego Garcia will be returned anytime soon. The expert of the Supreme Court and expert Jeffrey Toobin was frank: “I don't think he is coming back, essentially,” he said on cnn.
Democrats, focused on laser, on Trump's criticism on the economy and the serpent on immigration issues where he benefits from more support, finally catchy To the constitutional crisis. Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen landed in salvador On Wednesday, and others, including representative Robert Garcia de Long Beach, also provide trips. But the ultimate pressure must come from voters, like those who assailed Republican senator Chuck Grassley in an Iowa town hall this week.
When Grassley insisted that he would not help Abrego Garcia “because it is not a power of the congress”, the participants ripadé. They know better.
