What the Abrego Garcia Dispute Is Really About

The Trump administration is stonewalling the judge who ordered it to facilitate the return to the United States of the alien the administration illegally deported to El Salvador and lodged in a notorious prison there, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This, even though the Supreme Court last week unanimously upheld the order — as had a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals a few days earlier. (See my posts on these developments here, here, here, and here.)

The alien, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, is now heading into his second month of confinement at CECOT, the brutality and overcrowding of which have been documented by the State Department and in separate proceedings involving hundreds of Venezuelan aliens whom the Trump administration also deported to El Salvador with no due process. (In similar unanimity last week, the Supreme Court ruled that those Venezuelans, too, are entitled to due process.)

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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The Trump administration is stonewalling the judge who ordered it to facilitate the return to the United States of the alien the administration illegally deported to El Salvador and lodged in a notorious prison there, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This, even though the Supreme Court last week unanimously upheld the order — as had a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals a few days earlier. (See my posts on these developments here, here, here, and here.)

The alien, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, is now heading into his second month of confinement at CECOT, the brutality and overcrowding of which have been documented by the State Department and in separate proceedings involving hundreds of Venezuelan aliens whom the Trump administration also deported to El Salvador with no due process. (In similar unanimity last week, the Supreme Court ruled that those Venezuelans, too, are entitled to due process.)

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.