The Trump administration did nothing to facilitate the release of the Maryland man wrongly, says his lawyers

One day after a long-awaited oval office meeting during which the president of El Salvador said that he would not make a man from Maryland wrongly detained in his country, the federal judge who ordered his return will hear lawyers from the Trump administration during a legal hearing on Tuesday afternoon.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia begins his second month in a mega-prison in El Salvador after he was expelled on March 15 despite an order from the 2019 court prohibiting his expulsion in this country.

Trump administration officials say that Garcia, who escaped political violence in Salvador 2011, is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang, but to date, they have provided little evidence of this assertion in court.

He is detained in the notorious prison of Cecot d’El Salvador, as well as hundreds of other members of alleged migrant gangs, under an arrangement in which the Trump administration pays El Salvador $ 6 million to house the expenses expelled from the United States as part of the Crackdown of Immigration by President Donald Trump.

The Attorney General Pam Bondi, at a meeting of the Oval Office on Monday with President Trump and the president visiting the Salvador, said that the return of Abrego Garcia belonged “to El Salvador”.

“If El Salvador … wanted to return it, we would make it easier,” she said.

Questioned by journalists on Abrego Garcia, President Bukele replied: “I do not have the power to return it to the United States.”

In a request filed Tuesday before the hearing, ABREGO GARCIA lawyers argued that the Trump administration had taken no action to comply with the orders to facilitate its release.

“There is no evidence that someone asked for the release of Abrego Garcia,” they wrote in the file.

Lawyers also challenged the interpretation by the government of the word “facilitating”, which the administration supported in legal files is limited to the abolition of internal obstacles which would hinder Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States.

The interpretation of the term in this way, the lawyers of Abrego Garcia argued “null” the ordinance of the Supreme Court according to which the government would facilitate its release.

“To give meaning to the ordinance of the Supreme Court, the government should at least be required to ask for the release of Abrego Garcia. To date, the government has not done so,” they wrote in their request.

After the American district judge Paula Xinis ordered the government to “facilitate and carry out” the return of Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court ruled last week that judge Xinis “properly demanded that the government ‘` `Facilité’ ‘Abrego Garcia, it would not have been badly sent to El Salvador and Salvador.

“The planned scope of the term” actually “in the order of the district court is however unclear and may exceed the authority of the district court. The district court should clarify its directive, with respect duly to the deference due to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs,” wrote the Supreme Court, which the Trump administration interpreted as the separation of the Power.

Judge Xinis subsequently changed his decision to delete the word “perform” from his order.

In an interview on Monday evening with Linsey Davis of ABC News, an Abrego Garcia lawyer said that he hoped that Tuesday’s hearing “lights up a fire under the government to comply with the Supreme Court’s order” to facilitate the release of Abrego Garcia.

“What we ask [of Trump] This is exactly what the Supreme Court said to him: “Lawyer Benjamin Osorio said.” I personally worked with the DHS before to facilitate the return of several other customers who have been expelled, then I won their business at the circuit courts or the Supreme Court, and the ice facilitated its return. “”

“So we don’t ask anyone to do anything illegal,” said Osorio. “We ask them to follow the law.”

“It looks a bit like the same Spider-Man where everyone points to everyone,” said Osorio about Bukele’s assertion that he does not have the power to return Garcia. “But at the same time, I mean, we rent space in the Salvadoran. We pay them to host these people, so that we can stop payment and allow them to be returned to us.”

When asked if he was convinced that Garcia Garcia would have returned, Osorio said he was worried but full of hope.

“I am concerned about the rule of law, I am worried about our constitution, I am worried about the regular procedure,” he said. “So, at this stage, I am optimistic to see what is happening during the hearing of the Federal Court.”