Supreme Court pauses order to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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The Supreme Court temporarily paused a court-imposed deadline to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25857740

This is INSANE! Trump is asking the Supreme Court to bless his administration screwing up TO THE POINT THEY CEEDED CUSTODY OF A PERSON THEY DIDN’T HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY OVER and not require them to fix it?

If SCOTUS backs Trump here, literally all is lost. Due process will have NO MEANING if this isn’t fixed ASAP.

Remember, if they did it to this guy the only thing stopping them from doing it to you or me is dumb luck.

    • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      4 months ago

      Just for clarity, he’s not a citizen. He did have a legal protected status which was supposed to allow him to remain here or at the very least not be deported to specifically El Salvador. Still fucked, but just want to get the facts straight.

      EDIT I misunderstood, he is a citizen of El Salvador, but not the US. I’d seen people claiming he was a US citizen and wanted to correct that.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 months ago

        Doesn’t matter if he was a citizen or not. First, all people within the US are under the umbrella of the constitution and, thus, have rights within our borders. One of those rights is the right to due process. He did not receive any due process, nor did any of those sent to El Salvador. There is nothing then that will catch mistakes like this.

        Maybe you or someone thinks that is fine, that non-citizens shouldn’t have constitutional rights like the right to due process. Ok, well then guess what happens when a citizen is “mistakenly” picked up by ICE, thinking they are a non-citizen and receives no due process? The exact same thing that happened to him. If we dont even take enough time to verify one’s identity, then anyone could be treated as a non-citizen and have no legal recourse at all, including a full US citizen. Due process for everyone is the only way to assure that all citizens receive due process as well.

        • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Oh, believe me, I am in full agreement. This never should have happened, for many, many reasons. I was just attempting to correct what I thought was a factual inaccuracy that does have a material impact on the case.