The case of Abrego Garcia

On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the release of Abrego Garcia, who is an undocumented immigrant. He was taken into immigration custody for up to 4 months for “basically no reason.” The ruling of the judge Paula Xinis says it was a huge defeat for the entire administration. This is because she told Abrego Garcia that he would never walk free of American land without being questioned. Abrego Garcia was a hidden immigrant living in Maryland and was an immigrant from El Salvador.

Mr. Albergo Garcia is facing many criminal charges for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country. Judge Finis, in her 31–page decision, had no choice but to free Mr. Albergo Garcia. There was just one problem. The Trump administration had never actually had a valid order to deport Mr. Albergo Garcia from the United States. This means that the United States government had been holding Mr. Albergo Garcia without proper authority.

In March, immigration officials took Mr. Albergo Garcia from the streets of suburban Maryland and put him on a plane that had other undocumented individuals heading to El Salvador. This was even though he was not supposed to be sent back.

During this time, Judge Xinis had been spending much of her time going through the justice system in a time that she would commonly refer to as the “Tortured History”. This was a 4–month period where the Trump administration flunked 3 court cases. This included one from the Supreme Court. This was to Mr. Albergo Garcia’s freedom from El Salvador. He claims that during his time in El Salvador, he had been tortured and locked up in a prison that was designed specifically for terrorists.

Also during that same time period, Trump himself accused Mr. Albergo Garcia of being part of the violent street gang of MS-13. He used the fact that Mr. Albergo Garcia had a bunch of tattoos of photo-shopped images of the gang on his knuckles. Other senior members of the Trump administration said insulting things like “Gangbanger, Monster, Illegal Predator, and Illegal Alien Terrorist.”

As officials look into the situation, a federal judge overlooked Mr. Albergo Garcia’s criminal case and the judge had tackled it back and forth. They released Mr. Albergo Garcia from custody on the charges he got for smuggling. This was called “poor attempts to tie Abrego to MS-13.” Three days later, Mr. Albergo Garcia was detained by immigration officials who said that they would deport him to Uganda, a country where he had never been to and one that he had no ties with. Some lawyers came and blocked his removal to a country that was not his own. This caused a multi-week scramble as officials had plans to expel him to other African Countries. His lawyers decided to send him to Costa Rica, but the court surprisingly said no. The only option they offered was to send him to Liberia. This was all to suggest that the Trump Administration had not been serious about sending him anywhere. Liberia was now the only country available to Mr. Albergo Garcia.