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Trump administration seeks to move ahead with removing Abrego Garcia to Liberia (abcnews.com)

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The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to swiftly remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as a court allows.

In a series of filings on Friday, administration officials asked a judge to dissolve a preliminary injunction that bars them from re-detaining Abrego Garcia and deporting him.

Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported last March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution. The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which he and his attorneys deny.

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[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 39 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

So he's originally from El Salvador.

He was going to be deported, so he designated El Salvador as the destination.
A judge blocked his deportation to El Salvador.
He was "by mistake" deported to El Salvador.
The courts told the administration to bring him back.
The administration said they couldn't find him. Repeat 4 and 5 up the court ladder.
The Supreme Court told them to bring him back.
He was "found" and brought back to the US to face charges.
He designated Costa Rica as a country he'd be willing to be deported to, because he couldn't be deported to El Salvador.
The Head of ICE says they have "decided to disregard" that, and they've negotiated to deport him to a completely different continent, because it would be "prejudicial to the United States" to deport him to Costa Rica. There is no indication he has any relation to Liberia.

ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a "direct contradiction to established judicial norms" - as though it's normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they're from.

They're punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they're reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Also he's here completely legally.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a “direct contradiction to established judicial norms” - as though it’s normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they’re from.

I would love to use these 'established judicial norms' to deport this entire administration to Antarctica, but I'd feel bad about inflicting them on the researchers working there.

[–] SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The researchers have shotguns. I'd pay to watch the live feed.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why would researchers in Antarctica have shotguns? Not like there are polar bears like on Svalbard.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Horny penguins are a real hazard.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What is Liberia even going to do with him?

Has he been able to request a visa or asylum in Liberia? Are they just going to drop him off and let him get sucked into Liberia immigration system as an undocumented immigrant in another country?

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I suspect Liberia is just going to do something similar to what it was originally designed for - to be the dumping ground for former U.S slaves.

Being one of the poorest places in the world, I doubt it has a particularly robust immigration system.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He really, really, really needs to get to the Canadian border and ask for asylum at this point. He is 100% a thorn in their side because of all the attention he drew to their stupid policy. I wont call it deportation because it seems a majority of the time they are remanding people to prisons in third locations where who the fuck knows what happens.

They will never stop this until he is dead

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The who the fuck is everyone. And the what is torture and human rights violations. Degrading treatment, sexual abuse, and psychological and physical torture.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Leave the man alone jfc

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But Trump's ego! And Republicans' need for cruelty!

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Great opportunity for someone to give him and his family asylum just to throw some shade on the USA.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Spain should do this. They're already passive aggressively been taking a pretty anti-US/Israel stance the last month.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Spain's very actively opposing it. They've cut off diplomatic relations with Israel and were among the first to oppose Trump's demand to support the attack on Iran.