The federal government is working to secure a charter flight to return a man who was removed from the U.S. back to America so he can have proper due process proceedings, the Justice Department said in court documents filed Wednesday.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ordered the man, only known by the initials O.C.G., to be returned to the United States after he found that necessary due process steps in his removal proceedings were “ignored” by the Trump administration.
O.C.G.'s attorneys argued that he has no criminal history and sought asylum in the United States after multiple violent attacks against him in his native country of Guatemala.
But they were ALL deported without due process, so ALL the deportations are illegal!!
They probably have a chance of winning this, that probably why it looks like they are cooperating
What about Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
He’s a legalUS citizenresident and he’s still sitting in CECOT.Edit: resident not citizen
They have to keep one guy out illegally so we waste all of our outage on him instead of the fact that it’s happening at all.
It sets precisdent, the feds admitted they fucked up. Once he is back there are fewer excuses and it becomes a lot easier to hold people in contempt. (Also I very much look forward to the ambulance chasers lineing up to represent him for his civil damages case, this is going to cost tax payers and arm and a leg to make right the damages and should be a reminder of the cost of electing incompetent boobs)
He’s not a US citizen, but he had a court order not to deport from during the previous Trump administration.
Not only that, but the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that he needs to come back. Those guys don’t unanimously agree on anything
KAG is not a US citizen, but was living here legally, and his wife is a US citizen.
It boggles the mind that the only sanction for willful violation of the Constitution of the United States is a judge having to beg to have the guy brought back.
There really should be jail time for anyone in a position of power that knowingly ignores people’s rights.
…especially once the judge has issued an order and they willfully ignore it.
That’s contempt of court. Is there an upper limit, or can the judge in question hold (jail) someone in contempt, conceivably, until the order to return the person has been fulfilled?
Why can’t they jail the officers, drivers, pilots, attendants, mechanics, etc, for contempt until such time as the order by the judge has been fulfilled?
Now do it for the rest of them.
TACO 🌮
The cracks are finally starting to break open. He’s losing power.
Fuck man, there’s still so much damage done and some much to come but, God and liberty willing, we’ll make it through this without becoming monsters ourselvs
This is the kind of thinking that led to complacency after the 2020 election.
Trump is not the cause of America’s rot; he’s a symptom. Even if he’s gone, there’s a vast web of right-wing media, wealth, fascists, bigots, racists, and voters who are still willing to blow it all up to give the rich more money.
Somehow, we have to deal with the anti-intellectual oppositionally-defiant idiocy that is rampaging through 40% of our population before we can start making true progress again.
I also want to point out that this administration is a symptom not only of the rot within the population, but the growing power of the executive branch.
It’s been a concern since the Great Depression and WWII and over the decades it has been becoming more and more possible that an administration like this could happen.
Now it’s being tested and I hope we’re able to fix it.
Sadly, it won’t be fixed until (unless?) a Democrat is elected President again, because Republicans seem quite willing to cede their own power to their own President, as long as he promises to hurt the right people with it.
