An appeals court lambasted the Trump administration for its slow-walking of Abrego Garcia’s return.
The Trump administration’s latest bid to keep mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadorian prison was swatted down in a federal appeals court on Thursday, intensifying the legal pressure to facilitate the Maryland man’s return.
In a Thursday ruling, Fourth Circuit Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III said the Trump administration was “asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.”
“This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear,” the Reagan appointee wrote in a seven-page opinion, joined by two other judges.
