The Trump administration said it would not provide information on how it will get a wrongly deported Maryland dad home by a Friday morning deadline because the timeframe a judge imposed was “impracticable.”
In effect, the Department of Justice is openly defying a court order that requires the government to provide details about 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and how he will be brought back stateside.
Abrego Garcia was flown to a mega prison in El Salvador last month due to an “administrative error.” Despite the DOJ admitting to the error, it argued it did not have the authority to bring Abrego Garcia home because he was now in the custody of El Salvador.
Maryland District Court Judge Paula Xinis, a Barack Obama appointee, disagreed and ruled that Abrego Garcia must be returned stateside, where he has an American wife and child.
The issue reached the Supreme Court on Thursday. The high court, which has a conservative majority, ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must take steps to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia.
Xinis granted an extension for the government to release a return plan on Friday—from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—but refused to grant a request by government attorneys to push the deadline to Wednesday.
“This court amended its prior order and made clear what the government must do consistent with the Supreme Court’s directive,” she said in court Friday, according to Politico.
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