'I’m not asking for state secrets': Judge gives Trump ultimatum on wrongfully deported man

11 Apr 2025, 18:55 by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNet

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, is seen wearing a Chicago Bulls hat, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025. Abrego Garcia Family/Handout via REUTERS

Adam Lynch
April 11, 2025Bank

The New York Times reports Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates on its progress returning Maryland father Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after it wrongly deported him to a prison in El Salvador. He has been detained for weeks under conditions condemned by the U.S. State Department.

“We are going to make a record of everything the government is doing and not doing,” said Judge Xinis, over objections from administration attorney Drew Ensign.

“The court’s deadlines are impractical,” said Ensign, who added at today’s hearing that the government was “not yet prepared to share” any information on Garcia or his current whereabouts.

“I’m not asking for state secrets,” Judge Paula Xinis responded.

After nearly a month of refusing to provide solid answers and appealing lower court decisions buttressing legal resident laws, the conservative Supreme Court supermajority issued a unanimous rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday night, upholding a lower court’s ruling ordering the federal government to “facilitate” the return of Garcia to the U.S.

Xinis feels the administration’s needs monitoring on both its process and progress.

Garcia’s attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg told reporters after the hearing that the government still has shared no information on Garcia with his team or Garcia’s family.

“They’ve refused to answer what they’ve done [with him] so far, and they’ve refused to answer where [Abrego Garcia] is today,” Moshenberg said.

Read the full New York Times article at this link.