More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Abrego Garcia's behalf
Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return 바카라 게임 웹사이트 even after the Supreme Court ruled that it was the government's duty to do so.
Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California arrived in the Central American nation on Sunday to investigate the condition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had lived in the United States for more than a decade. The Trump administration deported him, a move that administration officials have said in court filings was erroneous.
But despite a Supreme Court ordering the Trump administration to help facilitate Abrego Garcia's return, the administration has said it has no power to bring him back, a choice being scrutinized by federal courts as potentially in violation of judicial rulings.
바카라 게임 웹사이트To see the Trump administration so blatantly and egregiously defy the Supreme Court and have no regard for due process is extremely alarming to me,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Ansari said in an interview. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Even with all of the illegal actions we바카라 게임 웹사이트ve seen over the last couple of months, I think this is the one that terrifies me the most when it comes to the future of our democracy.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The trip comes after one last week
The quartet바카라 게임 웹사이트s trip comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador last week and met Abrego Garcia and Salvadoran officials. Abrego Garcia had lived in Maryland with his wife and three children, who are American citizens, before he was deported on March 15.
Abrego Garcia's protected legal status prohibited him from being deported to El Salvador. He was deported on one of three planes filled with alleged migrant gang members.
Garcia said he and Frost sent a letter last week to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., requesting that an official delegation go to El Salvador to investigate Abrego Garcia's condition and push for his return, but received no response. Ansari said more Democrats would be traveling to El Salvador in the coming days and weeks.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Those of us in the House who are here greatly admire and support what Sen. Van Hollen did,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Garcia said. Of Abrego Garcia, he said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트His family knew that he was safe, but he바카라 게임 웹사이트s not home, and so we바카라 게임 웹사이트ve got to continue the pressure, and we바카라 게임 웹사이트ve got to ensure that the rule of law in the United States is allowed.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Justice Department lawyers said in court last week that they have no power to advance Abrego Garcia바카라 게임 웹사이트s return because he is in a foreign country바카라 게임 웹사이트s custody. Administration officials also claimed in public comments that Abrego Garcia was engaged in human trafficking and terrorism and therefore correctly deported. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that if Abrego Garcia were to return to the U.S., 바카라 게임 웹사이트he would immediately be deported again.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Van Hollen unsuccessfully lobbied the Salvadoran government for Abrego Garcia's return. He told NBC's 바카라 게임 웹사이트Meet the Press바카라 게임 웹사이트 on Sunday that the United States is facing a 바카라 게임 웹사이트constitutional crisis바카라 게임 웹사이트 if the Trump administration does not follow the Supreme Court's order to push to bring Abrego Garcia back.
It's a warning Democrats are increasingly amplifying. Rather than debate President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy or the merits of the administration's invocation of national security to carry out deportations, Democratic lawmakers are zeroing in on the issue of due process, with some noting that the Supreme Court and lower court federal judges found Abrego Garcia was deported without a proper hearing.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The government바카라 게임 웹사이트s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the court바카라 게임 웹사이트s ruling in Abrego Garcia's case.
Said Garcia: 바카라 게임 웹사이트They바카라 게임 웹사이트re trying to demonize him, and we바카라 게임 웹사이트re not here to defend him. He deserves due process, and everyone deserves due process. ... What he did or may have done, that has to be decided by a judge.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Republicans have been going, too 바카라 게임 웹사이트 for a different reason
Several House Republicans have visited El Salvador바카라 게임 웹사이트s Terrorism Confinement Center, the prison where Abergo Garcia is being held, and lauded the facility for what they view as El Salvador's tough-on-crime policies. Republican senators and governors have defended Abrego Garcia's detention as part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration. But at least one Republican senator called the administration's deportation of Abrego Garcia a mistake.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The administration won바카라 게임 웹사이트t admit it. But this was a screw-up,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, on NBC's 바카라 게임 웹사이트Meet the Press.바카라 게임 웹사이트
During a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, Trump remarked that 바카라 게임 웹사이트homegrown바카라 게임 웹사이트 lawbreakers should be deported to prisons in the Central American country and urged Bukele to 바카라 게임 웹사이트build about five more places바카라 게임 웹사이트 like the notorious penitentiary where Abrego Garcia is now held.
Congressional Republicans have so far shown little interest in negotiating the dispute between the president and the judiciary. Democrats, who are in the minority in both chambers of Congress, have little leverage to pressure the White House. But Abrego Garcia's case has become both an alarming and galvanizing case inside the party.
Democrats "have the power to draw attention to this issue, to keep the pressure up," Ansari said. "That바카라 게임 웹사이트s why you know some of us are going, and so many members will be going. Because this is about the future of our democracy and the future of due process as American citizens.바카라 게임 웹사이트