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The deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared to be an open-and-shut case, but the case has taken on a life of its own in the courts. The Trump administration contends Abrego Garcia is a gang member, and that they were right in shipping him off to a notorious prison in El Salvador, but Abrego Garcia’s lawyers claim their client has never been charged with crime in his time in the United States and has a protective order to stay in America. At the heart of the case is one central question: does the United States have to take Abrego Garcia back? Jesse Weber is a News Nation legal contributor and co-host of “Always in Fashion”, heard on 710 WOR Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm. He says the Trump administration may find itself in a bind over the case.
Weber told host Larry Mendte that he thinks the case against Abreu Garcia isn’t finding many favorable jurists on appeal. “I think the Trump administration is struggling legally to justify what’s happening here. Most recently, yesterday, a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s arguments that they didn’t need to comply with getting Abrego Garcia back… This back-and-forth that we saw earlier this week between the El Salvadoran president and President Trump that ‘there’s only so much that I can do, there’s only so much I can do”- It feels a bit disingenuous. I feel that if Abreu Garcia was anybody else, there wouldn’t be this conversation.”
Weber feels the appeals may continue all the way to the Supreme Court before the Trump administration hears the last of the ordeal. “At the very least, this is something that should be litigated for purposes of due process, to really determine whether or not he was a gang member, a terrorist, and whether or not he should have had some protection in the United States. So, this is bound to go back to the Supreme Court, and if they provide more clarity, then it becomes a question of what the Trump administration will do.”
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