A federal judge from Maryland ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20 -year -old Venezuelan expelled to El Salvador, whose dismissal violated a regulation of the previous court, according to an order made Wednesday.
American district judge Stephanie Gallagher, a person appointed by Trump, also ordered the government not to withdraw from other persons covered by the regulations.
The 2019 collective appeal file was filed on behalf of people who entered the United States as unaccompanied minors and then asked for asylum.
The group continued the government in order to have its requests for asylum be judged when they stayed in the United States. The parties settled in 2024.
The lawyers of the complainants say that the Trump administration, in violation of the settlement agreement, withdrew one of the members of the class – referred to the use of the pseudonym “Cristian” in the judicial archives – in Salvador on March 15 when he deported three plants of members of migrant gangs alleged to CECOT Mega -Prison.
In an opinion filed on Wednesday, judge Gallagher referred to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case wrongly and said that “as the judge [Paula] Xinis in the Abrego Garcia case, this court will order the defendants to facilitate the return of Cristian to the United States so that he could receive the process to which he was entitled under the binding settlement agreement of the parties. “”
The judge’s order was reported for the first time by ABC News.
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Judge Gallagher said that the return of Cristian’s return obliges the defendants “to make a good faith in good faith in the government of El Salvador and to release Cristian to transport to transport in the United States to wait for the decision of his asylum request on the merits of the USCIS.”
Gallagher described the expulsion as “breach of contract”.
“Basically, this case, unlike other cases involving the abolition of the government of individuals under the law on extraterrestrial enemies, is a contractual dispute due to the settlement agreement,” said the applicant’s lawyers, referring to the regular 18th century procedure used to eliminate non-citizens with little regular procedure.
The Trump administration, according to the ordinance, argues that the abolition of Cristian has not violated the colony because “its designation as a foreign enemy in accordance with the AEA is reflected by ceasing it to be a member”.
In a statement under oath, an official of the application of American immigration and customs said that Cristian had been arrested in January for possession of cocaine.
“January 6, 2025, [“Cristian”] was found guilty of the 482nd district court of the county of Harris, Texas, for the offense of cocaine possession, a crime of the Texas State prison, “said Robert Cerna, director of the acting office for the operations of application and dismissal.
Cerna said that after the invocation of the AEA, the ice determined that Cristian was subject to the removal.
“March 15, 2025, [“Cristian”] has been eliminated under the law on extraterrestrial enemies, 50 USC ch. 3, in accordance with the presidential proclamation 10 903, as a Venezuelan citizen 14 years old or more who is a member of ADD, “Cerna said, referring to the Venezuelan Criminal Gang Tren in Aragua.
“The allegations according to which the members of the course, like Cristian, are subject to the AEA do not exclude individuals of the class under the settlement agreement,” said the lawyer’s lawyers.
The lawyer for the migrants class also allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly, identified as an 18-year-old named Javier in the judicial archives, was in an imminent danger of being expelled earlier this month.
Judge Gallagher determined that Javier was covered by the settlement agreement and made a temporary prohibition order prohibiting the government from withdrawing it from the United States.
