The U.S. Justice Department told an appeals court Saturday that a judge did not have the authority to order the Trump administration to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison, and it suspended a government lawyer who admitted in court that the deportation was an error.
The government's attorneys asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause a Friday ruling by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. by late Monday night.
The government's attorneys asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause a Friday ruling by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. by late Monday night.
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00:00In a blink of an eye, our three children lost their father and I lost the love of my life.
00:07To all the wives, mothers, children who also face this cruel separation,
00:15I stand with you in this bond of pain.
00:18Para todas las personas que también han sufrido separaciones familiares,
00:23me paro hoy con ustedes en este sufrimiento.
00:26It's a journey that no one ever should ever have to suffer.
00:34A nightmare that feels endless.
00:37We must fight for our husbands, our children, our neighborhood, our loved ones.
00:43Fight for Kilmart and fight for all the immigrant families
00:46lighting a candle for the loved ones that disappear by administration.
00:51If I had all the money in the world,
00:57I'll spend it all just to buy one thing.
01:08A phone call to hear Kilmart's voice again
01:16and have the opportunity to talk to him and the kids again.
01:21Kilmart, if you can hear me,
01:32I miss you so much.
01:37And I'm doing the best to fight for you and our children.
01:40He should be here right now.
01:42Instead, he is in a notorious Salvadoran prison rife with human rights abuses,
01:50cut off from the outside world, cut off from his wife and his children.
01:56The government sent him there knowing it was prohibited from sending him there.
02:03They call this an error and are refusing to lift a single finger to bring him back.
02:12This cannot stand.