Sometimes, the government really does just screw up. The problem for the Trump administration is that it has acted duplicitously enough times that its critics understandably assume the worst.
My intuition is that the worst was not what happened in the case of Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron. Nevertheless, the administration did deport him to El Salvador on May 7 . . . about a half hour after the Trump Justice Department represented to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the government would not deport him until at least May 8, to give the court time to address his case.
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