The White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Ábrego García was in a gang, which his lawyer denies.

The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.

Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.

A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.

  • boughtmysoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    None of these men will ever be heard from again. CECOT brags about how the only way out is in a coffin.

    It’s only a matter of time before US born citizens are extraordinarily renditioned to CECOT.

    • perestroika@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      I replied to your post of the satellite photo in another thread. See my reply here. In short, the strange spill and material has been present in the yard of that building for at least a month. If it’s permanent, it could indicate a washing facility or slaughterhouse. Jumping to conclusions is not a good way to proceed when you don’t check the context of a satellite photo.

      Regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, see this post on Twitter, a US senator was able to meet him:

      https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1913034619710034094

  • Cool_Name@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    His lawyers can try to split hairs about “facilitate” vs. “effectuate” but saying he will never come back to the US after being ordered to try to get him back to the US seems like the most obvious violation possible of a 9 - 0 supreme court decision. If republicans were honest, trump could be removed from office by Saturday morning. What would there be to even investigate?

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Those change.org petitions always go right into the round filing cabinet. I’ve signed so many of them, and not once have I ever seen one come into fruition.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If a domestic violence allegation is all it takes to get send away, then 40% of all police officers in this country need to GTFO on that alone.

    (Not saying domestic violence is good, obviously. Just using their logic here.)

  • Liberteez@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Daily reminder that he wasn’t deported, because deportation is a process and they skipped the process and sent him straight to a death camp

    • laserm@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Daily reminder that the admin is in its second possible violation of a court order, with the first one being already confirmed as contempt by judge Boasberg and in which he’s seeking criminal contempt.

      It’s his third month in office.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Daily reminder that the USA is literally falling to a dictatorship no different than any of the other dictator-led nations around the world like Chad, Sudan, North Korea, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Laos and so many others.

      What? You can’t relate because they’re not white? Get it together people, skin color has been a distraction since the dawn of human migration, if you’re still compartmentalizing nations and people’s by how they look, you’re going to all lose all your happy comforts and shiny toys.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Of course not - the U.S. is run by a dictator who is being run by a foreign dictator.

    Republicans all do what putin tells them to do - else no more money.

  • D_C@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Kilmar Ábrego García: Deported without due process will never live back in US, says White House

    That’s the correct title.

    Unfortunately, the guy is -probably- dead.
    It’s not that they won’t bring him back, it’s that they can’t bring him back.
    tRUMP directly killed this guy with his policies. What will be done about it? Tell me, what will be done…

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        The term normally shortened to “Habeus Corpus” has a full meaning “habeas corpus ad subjiciendum”, meaning “You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”

        In most cases it’s referring to a person, not a corpse. But, in this case…

      • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        Is the left wing media in the room with you right now? No? Do you know why?

        Because there is no left-wing media in the US. There are varying degrees of capitalist media corps and their apologists with a smattering of actual journalists trying to get their stories out in between but mainly being drowned out.

        Cut it out.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Why not deport him using the actual process if he’s as bad as you say? Why do they have to wipe their ass with the Constitution to do it?

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Zero evidence for any of that shit you said.

        I’d love to be proven wrong, but you won’t deliver.

          • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            That’s a lot of typing to say you don’t give a fuck about the constitution. Why don’t you just say you don’t believe the gov’t should be bound by the constitution?

          • Moose@moose.best
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            2 days ago

            He was a criminal in El Salvador.

            As far as being a criminal in El Salvador, it’s alleged, not proven…

            So was he a criminal or not in El Salvador? Because to me it sounds like you just lied and are now trying to move the goalposts. Due process is the issue here, if you can’t understand that then don’t be surprised when people you know are wisked away to a prision in a foreign country.

        • n1ckn4m3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          From Fox News, because it’s patently bullshit. Garcia was never proven to be a gang member and the only connection was coerced testimony from a confidential informant who was facing deportation if they didn’t act as an informant, who gave the information to a detective who has since been fired from his position for multiple abuses of power and for lying under oath. Garcia was arrested for being brown outside of a home depot, not for any actual crime.

          Every single attempt that has been made to force the US DOJ to produce proof of his gang membership has been denied, because it’s all a lie. FugginJerk just drank the kool-aid while telling other people not to drink the kool-aid.

          But even that is beside the point – even if it wasn’t bullshit, he’s still owed due process as part of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

      • CMonster@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I don’t care about him personally. I care about how they did this. That is the crux of the issue.

      • papertowels@mander.xyz
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        2 days ago

        Hey, you’re a gang member with a criminal history in El Salvador, let’s get you deported.

        What’s that, you say you’re not one?

        Prove it without due process.

        What’s that, you couldn’t do that? Too bad, the administration doesn’t care and you’re now in a foreign prison (and maybe dead)

      • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        All of those facts are irrelevant and distractions though. Assuming that is the case then he should have been tried according to the rules of this country. The point in concentrating on this isn’t about the individual, it’s about the implication and precedent that is being set for everyone in the future.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s such a wonderful coincidence that they managed to pick up and deport, what is reportedly, the most dangerous man in America by accident. These guys are really batting for a thousand here.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh yeah. Very dead. Although my guess is he got murdered in the prison within a couple days or even hours. Probably the moment they went from “administration error” to “that guy was obviously in a gang”.