Update on Abrego Garcia

[John Williams]

The NY Times has published a year’s-end review of the strange case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  Before a chronological list of key events in the affair, the article gives a summary:

Nine months ago, immigration agents arrested a little-known Salvadoran sheet metal worker named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in the parking lot of a Home Depot in suburban Maryland as he was driving with his 5-year-old son.

The arrest and subsequent deportation of Mr. Abrego Garcia set in motion a byzantine legal journey that has now passed through every level of the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, and has been heard by multiple judges. One recently remarked on the saga’s “tortured history” spanning two civil cases and a separate criminal case.

In its parallel efforts to prosecute Mr. Abrego Garcia and to re-expel him from the country, the Justice Department has spent countless hours and untold sums of money pursuing an immigrant who has emerged as one of the most prominent symbols of President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

The department has also made numerous slip-ups in its handling of the cases, eliciting the ire of the judges overseeing them. The judges have said that department lawyers flouted orders, ignored due process, stonewalled proceedings, misled courts and most likely acted out of vindictive retribution against Mr. Abrego Garcia.

To make matters even more weird, Abrego Garcia has agreed to being deported to Costa Rica, and Costa Rica has agreed to take him, but the Trump administration won't send him.   Can you come up with a respectable motivation for the way the administration has been treating him?

[Robert Yosha]

A motivation, yes.

Respectable, no.

Lawlessness does not seek permission. Neither does indecency.

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