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Abrego Garcia Asks For Sanctions As Gov’t Officials Continue To Publicly Attack Him Ahead Of His Trial

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/abrego-garcia-asks-for-sanctions-as-govt-officials-continue-to-publicly-attack-him-ahead-of-his-trial/

3 ways #Trump's #immigration #crackdown could hit #USCitizens

Brittany Gibson, Apr 23, 2025

"#Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants — who criticizes Trump's policies.

"Why it matters: Such moves — described by officials in recent days — would show how U.S. citizens could be impacted by the growing number of tactics President Trump is using to, in his view, improve national security.

"They'd also be certain to ignite new legal battles over how far Trump's team can go in fighting illegal immigration and responding to #dissenters.

"Zoom in: Here are three tactics the administration has teased that legal analysts say would challenge Americans' rights:

1. Sending convicted U.S. citizens to prisons abroad.

This has been floated as a spinoff of Trump's deal with El Salvador, where a high-security prison is holding about 300 U.S. immigration detainees that the administration says are suspected criminals and gang members.
"Homegrowns are next," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last week, referring to sending Americans convicted of crimes to serve time in foreign prisons.
"We always have to obey the laws," Trump said, "but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies over the head ... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country."
Trump's suggestion — echoing a similar proposal Bukele made to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February — drew a storm of criticism from legal advocates, who called it unconstitutional.

2. Putting critics of the administration's policies in jeopardy.

Some officials say U.S. citizens who #criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.
"You have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them, because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime," White House senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka said in an interview with Newsmax.
Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing #immigrants with "#KnowYourRights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.
"They're trying to use terrorism laws to attack people for their speech and for their political activism, and that's an authoritarian effort," said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an immigration advocacy group.

3. Questioning the authority of court orders.

The administration's resistance to returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was legally in the U.S. with an order not to be deported back to El Salvador, but deported to the prison there anyway — has raised questions about how far Trump's team can go in trying to skirt court orders.
The White House says the decision to return #AbregoGarcia rests with El Salvador because the U.S. Supreme Court told the administration only to "facilitate" his return, not "effectuate" it.

Advocates worry the resulting confusion has laid the groundwork for Trump's team to send a #USCitizen to a foreign prison, then claim that person couldn't be returned.

A federal judge raised this concern in Abrego Garcia's case.
"If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" wrote Judge Harvie Wilkinson III.
"And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?"

What they're saying: Michelle Brané, former executive director of the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force, echoed Wilkinson.

"If they can send a noncitizen to a prison in El Salvador without due process ... why would a U.S. citizen be safer?"

The White House didn't respond to a request for comment. But officials have argued that they have an electoral mandate for stricter immigration enforcement, and that opposition to their policies is against the will of voters.

Trump's handling of immigration polls well in public surveys.
But sending immigrants to El Salvador's prison without criminal convictions or due process does not — about 60% were opposed in a recent YouGov survey.

Between the lines: U.S. citizens have been mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before, including cases this month in Arizona and Florida.

"People are realizing that this is going to impact all communities," Talbot said, "and that if one citizen can be picked up, then any of us can be picked up and put into proceedings, or labeled a #terrorist, or removed to a foreign prison."

Original article:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wUUdG

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I wrote an essay on my blog about the tactical order in which the current US President and his cronies are doling out indignities, such as the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation case and the lack of due process.

I hope my essay just restates a lot of things you already know. But I really don't think any of this can be said too many times.

Law and Ordering
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/law-and-ordering.html

#deportation #Kilmar #AbregoGarcia #KilmarAbregoGarcia #deportation #politics #USPolitics #RuleOfLaw #DueProcess

That, the govt argued, would intrude on the President’s sole power to conduct foreign relations. So the govt’s responsibility here is to, what, maybe issue #AbregoGarcia a Global Entry card to cut the #immigration line if he somehow turns up at a #US airport? This defiant position cannot stand—not if the rule of #law is to survive.

#SCOTUS #Trump #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick has handily outlined #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s legal #immigration history to show that no matter how many times #Trump & his thugs say it, there is no proof #AbregoGarcia is or ever was a M-13 gang member.

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via @lawdork A State Department official stated in a declaration filed on Saturday in #Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that, per the embassy, "#AbregoGarcia is currently being held in the #Terrorism #Confinement Center in #ElSalvador He is alive and secure in that facility." It was the first time any official confirmed in writing Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and that he is alive. No idea if this is true - #deportation #immigration #law #courts #democracy #ruleoflaw #corruption

Supreme Court pauses wrongful deportation case at behest of Trump lawyers

The Supreme Court granted a temporary pause Monday on a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Background:
On Friday, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” the return of #Kilmar #AbregoGarcia by midnight on Monday.

Over the weekend, the administration appealed to the 4th Circuit Court, but lost by a 3-0 vote.

Today:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the case is “stayed pending further order” of the court.

Both sides agree that due to an “administrative error,” Abrego-Garcia was flown with other detained men from Texas to a notorious prison in El Salvador on March 15.

Since then, however, the administration has refused to seek his return and insisted judges have no role in the matter.

He had been employed as a sheet metal worker in Baltimore. But in February, the Trump administration declared the MS-13 gang to be a “foreign terrorist organization, and agents went in search of identified gang members.

Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, says her husband has no criminal record and has been a good father to three children. She said he came to this country at age 16 to escape the gangs in El Salvador.

The judges who ruled on the case said the government did not show proof that Abrego Garcia had been gang member.

“The government’s ‘evidence’ was thin, to say the least,” Thacker said.

It was based on him “wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie” and a “vague and uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s Western clique in New York
— a place he has never lived.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-07/supreme-court-pauses-wrongful-deportation-case-at-behest-of-trump-lawyers