Trump’s Running Tab in the Abrego Garcia Case

[j brown's body]

"The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

The Trump administration’s long, belabored campaign to prove that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang leader, a terrorist, and an all-around bad guy—not a wrongfully deported Maryland man—has produced some extraordinary legal maneuvers. The administration fought Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador all the way to the Supreme Court, lost, and eventually brought him back to the United States to slap him with criminal charges it had started investigating after it had already sent him to a foreign prison. But with that criminal case off to a shaky start, the administration is threatening to deport Abrego Garcia again—this time to a country other than his native El Salvador—because the judge has ordered his release while the trial is pending. Having spent months trying to gather evidence against Abrego Garcia, the administration is suggesting it may walk away from it all by sending him to Mexico, Guatemala, or another nation willing to take him.

The threat of Abrego Garcia’s imminent re-deportation prompted his attorneys to take the extraordinary step today of asking a district court to delay their client’s release and keep him locked up for several more weeks to protect him from ICE. “The irony of this request is not lost on anyone,” his attorneys told the court. “In a just world, he would not seek to prolong his detention further.” The lawyers accused the government of pretending to want Abrego Garcia to face “American justice,” while really only wanting to “convict him in the court of public opinion.”

The head-spinning developments of the past several days add to the administration’s running tab in a case that has challenged its determination to admit no wrongdoing. The case has produced nearly 57,000 pages of documents; ended the Department of Justice careers of one, perhaps two, prosecutors; and prompted the Trump administration to cut deals with convicted felons that protect them from deportation in exchange for testimony. ...Trump and his top officials have said for months that their mass-deportation campaign would prioritize the swift removal of criminals from the United States. But in its effort to punish Abrego Garcia—who does not have a criminal record—the administration is protecting convicted felons from deportation."

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This country's leader is very sick man indeed.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Bull.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Bull.

Oh yeah, we know. Trump and Bondi would never commit retaliatory acts.

 

[RetiredAtLast]

Trump and his top officials have said for months that their mass-deportation campaign would prioritize the swift removal of criminals from the United States.

"Trump and his top officials have said for months" that they're prioritizing criminals and people who have outstanding removal orders. Abrego-Garcia has an outstanding removal order imposed by an immigration court several years ago. He should not have been sent to El Salvador because, he claims, it would be dangerous for him. OK. Why not send him somewhere else? Why are libs so determined to keep him in this country? They want due process? He's had it, years ago.

 

[j brown's body]

"Trump and his top officials have said for months" that they're prioritizing criminals and people who have outstanding removal orders. Abrego-Garcia has an outstanding removal order imposed by an immigration court several years ago. He should not have been sent to El Salvador because, he claims, it would be dangerous for him. OK. Why not send him somewhere else? Why are libs so determined to keep him in this country? They want due process? He's had it, years ago.

You don't find the administration's focus on this one legal immigrant to be a tad psychotic?

 

[anatta]

"Trump and his top officials have said for months" that they're prioritizing criminals and people who have outstanding removal orders. Abrego-Garcia has an outstanding removal order imposed by an immigration court several years ago. He should not have been sent to El Salvador because, he claims, it would be dangerous for him. OK. Why not send him somewhere else? Why are libs so determined to keep him in this country? They want due process? He's had it, years ago.

which is what the SCOTUS ruled on - so why is this gangsta still here?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lifts-limits-deporting-migrants-countries-not-their-own-2025-06-23/

 

[j brown's body]

which is what the SCOTUS ruled on - so why is this gangsta still here?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lifts-limits-deporting-migrants-countries-not-their-own-2025-06-23/

Why care? His greatest crime is being sucked into something Trump ****ed up.

 

[NolanVoyd]

Bull.

Which facts are you claiming to refute?

 

[RetiredAtLast]

You don't find the administration's focus on this one legal immigrant to be a tad psychotic?

I'm afraid the publicity given to him has caused the focus. But why do libs want to keep him in this country?

 

[RetiredAtLast]

which is what the SCOTUS ruled on - so why is this gangsta still here?

My guess is that (a) libs take the side of hoods and (b) they got hooked on him and can't let go. Oh, and he's a "victim."

 

[Lursa]

"Trump and his top officials have said for months" that they're prioritizing criminals and people who have outstanding removal orders. Abrego-Garcia has an outstanding removal order imposed by an immigration court several years ago. He should not have been sent to El Salvador because, he claims, it would be dangerous for him. OK. Why not send him somewhere else? Why are libs so determined to keep him in this country? They want due process? He's had it, years ago.

Why are you so willing to flush due process and the Constitution down the toilet?

 

[Lursa]

I'm afraid the publicity given to him has caused the focus. But why do libs want to keep him in this country?

According to the charges brought by the right, he's a human trafficker...shouldnt we seek justice?

 

[Cosmo]

According to the charges brought by the right, he's a human trafficker...shouldnt we seek justice?

A foreigner trafficking foreigners? Maybe just let the foreign government(s) "seek justice."

 

[CLAX1911]

"The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

The Trump administration’s long, belabored campaign to prove that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang leader, a terrorist, and an all-around bad guy—not a wrongfully deported Maryland man—has produced some extraordinary legal maneuvers. The administration fought Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador all the way to the Supreme Court, lost, and eventually brought him back to the United States to slap him with criminal charges it had started investigating after it had already sent him to a foreign prison. But with that criminal case off to a shaky start, the administration is threatening to deport Abrego Garcia again—this time to a country other than his native El Salvador—because the judge has ordered his release while the trial is pending. Having spent months trying to gather evidence against Abrego Garcia, the administration is suggesting it may walk away from it all by sending him to Mexico, Guatemala, or another nation willing to take him.

The threat of Abrego Garcia’s imminent re-deportation prompted his attorneys to take the extraordinary step today of asking a district court to delay their client’s release and keep him locked up for several more weeks to protect him from ICE. “The irony of this request is not lost on anyone,” his attorneys told the court. “In a just world, he would not seek to prolong his detention further.” The lawyers accused the government of pretending to want Abrego Garcia to face “American justice,” while really only wanting to “convict him in the court of public opinion.”

The head-spinning developments of the past several days add to the administration’s running tab in a case that has challenged its determination to admit no wrongdoing. The case has produced nearly 57,000 pages of documents; ended the Department of Justice careers of one, perhaps two, prosecutors; and prompted the Trump administration to cut deals with convicted felons that protect them from deportation in exchange for testimony. ...Trump and his top officials have said for months that their mass-deportation campaign would prioritize the swift removal of criminals from the United States. But in its effort to punish Abrego Garcia—who does not have a criminal record—the administration is protecting convicted felons from deportation."

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This country's leader is very sick man indeed.

Yes be the party that defended a gangster illegal alien make sure nobody votes with you ever again.

I would say die on a less stupid Hill but leftists are going to left.

 

[JohnfrmClevelan]

I'm afraid the publicity given to him has caused the focus. But why do libs want to keep him in this country?

It's not that we want to keep him in this country; whether he deserves to go remains to be seen. But we sure don't want to see a possibly innocent man swept up by an untrustworthy system.

I don't trust the trump DOJ to prosecute the laws fairly. Bondi got her job because as Florida's AG she declined to prosecute the trump University fraud case shortly after taking $25K from trump for her reelection campaign. She stinks like a dead fish, and she's trump's toadie.

We have already seen trump lie about the guy's tattoos, stupidly maintaining that the Arabic letters "M-S-1-3" that were photoshopped onto his knuckles were actual tattoos. Then trump lost in court, which he takes personally. Now that Garcia is back in the U.S., the government has come up with a ton of new charges that we didn't hear anything about the first time around. Again, I don't trust this government to play it straight; if the U.S. government decides it really wants to prosecute someone, they have the resources to invent enough evidence to sink anyone. They have already put a ton of resources into prosecuting this one man, because God forbid he's proven innocent and trump proven wrong.

This is why judges and lawyers have been sounding the alarm on trump and his administration's war on the legal system. If you can't trust the legal system to treat you fairly, you can't trust anything the government does.

Six months ago, this wasn't a problem.

 

[CLAX1911]

It's not that we want to keep him in this country;

It's that you want to keep people like him in the country?

whether he deserves to go remains to be seen.

No it doesn't he's an illegal alien he needs to go.

But we sure don't want to see a possibly innocent man swept up by an untrustworthy system.

He's not innocent he's an illegal alien that has been determined.

I don't trust the trump DOJ to prosecute the laws fairly.

Too bad that to the country elected.

Bondi got her job because as Florida's AG she declined to prosecute the trump University fraud case shortly after taking $25K from trump for her reelection campaign. She stinks like a dead fish, and she's trump's toadie.

Again too bad.

I didn't want Joe Biden to trade The merchant of death for some 3rd string basketball player.

We have already seen trump lie about the guy's tattoos, stupidly maintaining that the Arabic letters "M-S-1-3" that were photoshopped onto his knuckles were actual tattoos.

No you saw it made up stories saying he lied about it but that was a media fabrication you shouldn't believe those.

Then trump lost in court, which he takes personally. Now that Garcia is back in the U.S., the government has come up with a ton of new charges that we didn't hear anything about the first time around.

Now we get to use our justice system to prosecute foreign Nationals are a tax dollars go to solve problems that were already solved.

Again, I don't trust this government to play it straight; if the U.S. government decides it really wants to prosecute someone, they have the resources to invent enough evidence to sink anyone. They have already put a ton of resources into prosecuting this one man, because God forbid he's proven innocent and trump proven wrong.

They weren't prosecuting him they just sent him to his own country.

There's nothing to prosecute him for he just needs to leave get out he's an illegal alien.

This is why judges and lawyers have been sounding the alarm on trump and his administration's war on the legal system.

I'm the legal system is acting to usurp the citizens and put it into democracy.

See whether you like this or not the American people voted for Donald Trump and they voted for him because he was going to deport people like this.

The overwhelmingly want this. And the Democratic process is not in question he won the popular vote he won every swing state he won in every way imaginable probably because of this.

If you can't trust the legal system to treat you fairly, you can't trust anything the government does.

What do you mean treat you fairly if you're an illegal alien you go back home that's it how is that not fair?

Six months ago, this wasn't a problem.

6 months ago we had an illegal alien crisis because the two-figure heads that ran the party were to incompetent to tie their shoes and whoever was actually running it seemed to be desperate to end the US.

 

[JohnfrmClevelan]

It's that you want to keep people like him in the country?

No it doesn't he's an illegal alien he needs to go.

He's not innocent he's an illegal alien that has been determined.

Too bad that to the country elected.

Again too bad.

I didn't want Joe Biden to trade The merchant of death for some 3rd string basketball player.

No you saw it made up stories saying he lied about it but that was a media fabrication you shouldn't believe those.

Now we get to use our justice system to prosecute foreign Nationals are a tax dollars go to solve problems that were already solved.

They weren't prosecuting him they just sent him to his own country.

There's nothing to prosecute him for he just needs to leave get out he's an illegal alien.

I'm the legal system is acting to usurp the citizens and put it into democracy.

See whether you like this or not the American people voted for Donald Trump and they voted for him because he was going to deport people like this.

The overwhelmingly want this. And the Democratic process is not in question he won the popular vote he won every swing state he won in every way imaginable probably because of this.

What do you mean treat you fairly if you're an illegal alien you go back home that's it how is that not fair?

6 months ago we had an illegal alien crisis because the two-figure heads that ran the party were to incompetent to tie their shoes and whoever was actually running it seemed to be desperate to end the US.

There's a whole lot of dumb to respond to in your barely intelligible post, so let me just hit a few points.

Right now, the DOJ is preparing to prosecute Garcia on a whole bunch of charges, including human trafficking. I have no idea if Garcia is guilty or not, but he had a pretty clean record before being picked up. Point is, I don't trust this administration. I know you don't care about due process and justice as long as it's not you getting screwed, you have made that much clear. And to be frank, if it was you who was getting swept up by ICE and unfairly treated, I'm not sure that I would protest all that much. I have to admit that I enjoy news stories about MAGAts who are getting picked up, or their wives/husbands picked up, because it's not often that you really get what you vote for.

 

[CLAX1911]

There's a whole lot of dumb to respond to in your barely intelligible post, so let me just hit a few points.

Well aren't you polite.

Right now, the DOJ is preparing to prosecute Garcia on a whole bunch of charges, including human trafficking.

What the **** for? he was an illegal alien he was deported why did you bring him back to play patty cake with him.

I have no idea if Garcia is guilty or not,

I don't care ship him back to El Salvador let them deal with his ass why do we have to?

but he had a pretty clean record before being picked up. Point is, I don't trust this administration.

Too bad.

I know you don't care about due process

All the process that was due was determining he's an illegal alien and sending him back to El Salvador.

and justice as long as it's not you getting screwed, you have made that much clear.

If you're an illegal alien you should be deported that's it. That's absolutely Justice that's all the due process you deserve. And the illegal alien in question isn't being screwed over by anybody but himself.

And to be frank, if it was you who was getting swept up by ICE and unfairly treated, I'm not sure that I would protest all that much.

I'm not an illegal alien.

I have to admit that I enjoy news stories about MAGAts who are getting picked up, or their wives/husbands picked up, because it's not often that you really get what you vote for.

I'm betting there's more to those stories. But the fact that you get some schadenfreude out of it just underscores the hypocrisy of the left.

 

[CLAX1911]

. I have to admit that I enjoy news stories about MAGAts who are getting picked up, or their wives/husbands picked up, because it's not often that you really get what you vote for.

So you did just admit to enjoying watching other people suffer because they think a certain way. I'm not sure I would admit that.

 

[JohnfrmClevelan]

Well aren't you polite.

I respond to thoughtful posts thoughtfully. Put in the effort, and you will get a better response.

What the **** for? he was an illegal alien he was deported why did you bring him back to play patty cake with him.

He was denied due process.

I don't care ship him back to El Salvador let them deal with his ass why do we have to?

Another thoughtful answer!

He wasn't just sent back to El Salvador. He was sent to a jail in El Salvador, like all the others.

All the process that was due was determining he's an illegal alien and sending him back to El Salvador.

Well, the courts don't agree with you.

If you're an illegal alien you should be deported that's it. That's absolutely Justice that's all the due process you deserve. And the illegal alien in question isn't being screwed over by anybody but himself.

There is a process for determining whether or not someone is here illegally. American citizens were swept up and detained by this overzealous administration, too.

I'm not an illegal alien.

See above. Americans have been detained by ICE, too.

I'm betting there's more to those stories. But the fact that you get some schadenfreude out of it just underscores the hypocrisy of the left.

And I'm betting that you haven't heard many, or any, of the negative news stories because you probably don't avail yourself of media you don't agree with.

 

[JohnfrmClevelan]

So you did just admit to enjoying watching other people suffer because they think a certain way. I'm not sure I would admit that.

I do enjoy seeing karma play out.

I don't care if people think a certain way, until it negatively affects others. And that's MAGA. Idiots believing the craziest lies and electing the liars, to the detriment of all.

 

[CLAX1911]

I do enjoy seeing karma play out.

Sounds like you take pleasure in other people's suffering again you should probably shouldn't talk about that.

I don't care if people think a certain way, until it negatively affects others. And that's MAGA. Idiots believing the craziest lies and electing the liars, to the detriment of all.

The irony here is a little much.

 

[uptower]

 

[JoeB131]

"Trump and his top officials have said for months" that they're prioritizing criminals and people who have outstanding removal orders. Abrego-Garcia has an outstanding removal order imposed by an immigration court several years ago. He should not have been sent to El Salvador because, he claims, it would be dangerous for him. OK. Why not send him somewhere else? Why are libs so determined to keep him in this country? They want due process? He's had it, years ago.

Except now he is married to an American and has a child. Circumstances have changed and the case is subject due to a re-examination.

The problem is we are seeing a lot of this. The Army vet who was sent back to Korea because he used drugs to deal with PTSD.

 

[j brown's body]

Except now he is married to an American and has a child. Circumstances have changed and the case is subject due to a re-examination.

The problem is we are seeing a lot of this. The Army vet who was sent back to Korea because he used drugs to deal with PTSD.

He, his wife and kids are suffering for one reason and one reason only and that is because Trump is a sick ****.