Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year has helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. His attorneys claim the administration is now manipulating the immigration system in order to punish him for successfully challenging that deportation.
A motion from the government filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland late on Friday says officials have received assurances from Liberia that Abrego Garcia would not face persecution or torture there. Further, it says an immigration officer heard Abrego Garcia’s claims that he feared deportation to the West African nation, but ruled against him.
His attorneys argue in a separate Friday filing that Abrego Garcia has already designated Costa Rica as a country where he is willing to be deported. They claim the government now must send him there. The fact that officials continue to pursue deportation to other countries is evidence that the process is retaliatory and violates due process protections, they argue.
Hey! @tornavish@lemmy.cafe! Weird, I was just thinking about you. We must have telekinesis or something🫶
Right about what?
I do find it funny how you think that my opinion is to curl up in a ball, when my opinion is (based on words I’ve said) to go out there and fight… And I don’t mean standing on the street with a sign. But people like you think we should just wait around for the government to do something, and to politely ask them to be nice.
What do you suggest doing to fight?
Every time I tell a US citizen what to do, they just yell at me and ask me what I’m doing so that they can justify doing nothing by not believing anything I say.
Unfortunately, “fight” is subjective and most of the US disagree on who the enemy is. I will just leave it at civil disobedience, a few steps up from protesting preferably, and let everyone else decide what works best for them… but it doesn’t matter, Because without majority support nothing is going to get better. “Better” is also subjective.
Void willing, I’m 6 months away from PR approval, so none of this will even matter.
Oh wow congrats man! Bon Courage!
I can’t say I’m not a bit jealous, but at the same time I know plenty of people who are continuing to try and get PR in the U.S. because they don’t understand that life in the U.S. right now isn’t going to get better. They would probably agree with you that better is subjective though.