Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers asked the judge in the case to appoint a special master to investigate the failure by Trump officials to comply with her instructions.
The prison in Santa Ana, El Salvador, where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is believed to have been held. The White House suddenly changed course last Friday and brought him back to face indictment.
The court’s pause on a judge’s order came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
Scores of Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law and are being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
The court’s pause on a judge’s order came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
Scores of Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law and are being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
The judge also said the men, expelled under the Alien Enemies Act, were likely to prevail in their claims that they had been treated unfairly, deported with no chance to contest their removals.
Administration officials have either violated orders or used an array of obfuscations and delays to prevent federal judges from deciding whether violations took place.
The entrance to the Salvadoran prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is being held. The tensions between the court and the Trump administration over the case could soon come to a head.
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