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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Democrat pressure campaign to get Garcia released continues. Cue the MAGA outrage machine!

From the NYT:

Four Democratic lawmakers have arrived in El Salvador, where they intend to continue pressing for the release of a Maryland resident who was wrongly deported to a prison in the Central American country.

Representatives Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine E. Dexter of Oregon landed on Sunday. They are hoping their trip will focus more attention on the Trump administration’s lack of action after the Supreme Court ordered the government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

The four members of Congress are scheduled to meet with U.S. Embassy officials and human rights groups in San Salvador, the capital, on Monday. They say that in addition to calling for Mr. Abrego Garcia’s release, they are there to find out the status of others deported from the United States and detained in El Salvador.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-democrats.html[/quote]

Spare me any follow up about defending criminals.

They are literally helping the US comply with a Supreme Court order because the Executive branch is willfully not. The significance of this is the importance of checks and balances to prevent other US residents from being disappeared to foreign prisons without due process (and here I am paraphrasing the conservative justice appeals court ruling that the MAGAs do not care about).[/quote]

How does it prevent others from being disappeared?[/quote]

"The government is 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. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."

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"Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, 
right? The Supreme Court’s decision remains, as always, our guidepost. That decision rightly requires the lower federal courts to give “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”"

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"“Facilitation” does not permit the admittedly erroneous deportation of an individual to the one country’s prisons that the withholding order forbids and, further, to do so in disregard of a court order that the government not so subtly spurns. “Facilitation” does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign detention centers in the manner attempted here. Allowing all this would “facilitate” foreign detention more than it would domestic return. It would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness and tarnish the very values for which Americans of diverse views and persuasions have always stood.""

"The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. [b]If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?∗ And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” would lose its meaning.[/b] U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8."[/quote]

How does bringing him back prevent this from happening to a US citizen?[/quote]

Bringing him back, probably not, but the US actually showing effort to show they "attempted to facilitate" shows compliance with a Supreme Court order and helps to prevent a constitutional crisis. Or are you ok with the Executive doing whatever it wants regardless of the Supreme Court rulings, moving forward? I am not. Do you think the unanimous Appeals ruling is dramatic about its implication?[/quote]

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