Trump Loses Emergency Appeal to Halt Maryland Deportation Case
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Maryland, on April 4.
Photographer: Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoA US appeals court denied an emergency motion by the Trump administration to halt a federal judge’s effort to facilitate the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to a prison in his native El Salvador, saying the Justice Department’s conduct was shocking to Americans’ “sense of liberty.”
In a blistering opinion, an appellate panel said the Justice Department must abide by US District Judge Paula Xinis’s order that it provide wide-ranging evidence about why it hasn’t sought the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He was deported March 15 despite a 2019 court order saying he couldn’t be sent to his native country.