The U.S. government would initiate deportation proceedings against Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from jail before he stands trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee, a Justice Department attorney told a federal judge in Maryland on Monday.
The disclosure by U.S. lawyer Jonathan Guynn contradicts statements by spokespeople for the Justice Department and the White House, who said last month that Abrego Garcia would stand trial and possibly spend time in an American prison before the government moves to deport him.
Guynn made the revelation during a federal court hearing in Maryland, where Abrego Garcia’s American wife is suing the Trump administration over his mistaken deportation in March and trying to prevent him from being expelled again.
Didn’t the judge specifically state that they were not allowed to do this? Isn’t this the entire reason they had to bring him back?
We are so far past the point of this being a Constitutional crisis. When is someone going to say, enough is enough?
He can’t be sent to El Salvador but I believe they can send him elsewhere unfortunately.
I feel like Garcia’s attorneys could ask for a mistrial. No way he’s going to get a fair trial. Especially, with the government saying they’ll punish him regardless, seems like a slam dunk for his counsel. The challenge is keeping him alone and in the country after.
the way they choose juries, will probably be people sympathetic to the prosecution, so pratically dummies.
