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And yet he's back. Something we were told couldn't be done. The regime overtly lied when it claimed it had no ability to return Garcia to the US. Turns out it was simple. Noem, being an unqualified hack, perhaps didn't realize just how easy it would be. Just put him on a plane.
All of which begs the question, if the regime had enough evidence to try and convict Garcia of a crime prior to being sent to El Salvador, making the deportation legal, why did it choose to deport him without giving him the constitutional right to defend himself?
How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’
A mistake had been made. That much was clear.The Trump administration had deported a Maryland man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.
But when the news reached the Department of Homeland Security, it set off a dayslong scramble and clashes among officials in three different agencies over how to deal with what everyone knew had been an error. As it became clear that keeping it quiet was not an option, D.H.S. officials floated a series of ideas to control the story that raised alarms among Justice Department lawyers on the case.
In the days before the government’s error became public, D.H.S. officials discussed trying to portray Mr. Abrego Garcia as a “leader” of the violent street gang MS-13, even though they could find no evidence to support the claim. They considered ways to nullify the original order that barred his deportation to El Salvador. They sought to downplay the danger he might face in one of that country’s most notorious prisons.
And in the end, a senior Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who counseled bringing Mr. Abrego Garcia back to the United States, was fired for what Attorney General Pam Bondi said was a failure to “zealously advocate on behalf of the United States.”
This appears to be a case when trump officials got caught with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar and are now engaged in an attempt to justify it.
Two people familiar with the investigation said it made a significant leap forward when an imprisoned man recently came forward offering information about Mr. Abrego Garcia, but there was concern and disagreement among prosecutors about how to proceed. In recent weeks, a supervisor in the federal prosecutor’s office in Nashville resigned over how the case was handled, these people said.
In the minds of trump supporters a conviction for smuggling immigrants in to the country illegally will erase Garcia's initial illegal deportation and the subsequent violations of court orders regarding his case by the regime. It shouldn't.
