US administration argues judge cannot order return of man mistakenly deported
A US federal judge did not have the authority to order the Trump administration to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from America to a notorious El Salvador prison, government lawyers argued, as they urged an appeals court to suspend the ruling.
US district judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate ” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to America by Monday night.
However, US justice department lawyers asked the 4th US circuit court of appeals to immediately pause the judge’s order.
“A judicial order that forces the executive to engage with a foreign power in a certain way, let alone compel a certain action by a foreign sovereign, is constitutionally intolerable, ” they wrote.
The appeals court asked Mr Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to respond to the government’s filing by Sunday afternoon.
Mr Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national, was arrested in Maryland and deported last mon...
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