Here's the latest (from Abrego Garcia's excellent team of immigration lawyers and litigators). Updated, X2: We will hear the Noemites' response, by noon today [Updated -- they actually filed two of them; both are nonsense -- but they are linked here, and here]:
. . .In Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s supplemental submission filed yesterday, counsel advised the Court that, in light of the government’s claims that it lacked control over Mr. Abrego’s whereabouts, counsel in his civil action in the District of Maryland had moved for an order that Mr. Abrego be transported back to his home in Maryland following his impending release from custody in this District. See ECF 60 at 1 n.3. Yesterday, at an emergency hearing before Judge Xinis in the District of Maryland, the government represented that it intends to detain Mr. Abrego and remove him to a “third country” as soon as this Court releases Mr. Abrego from pretrial custody. This is the first time the government has represented, to anyone, that it intended not to deport Mr. Abrego back to El Salvador following a trial on these charges, but to deport him to a third country immediately. . . .
Judge Xinis set a further hearing on that motion on July 7. Hours later, the DOJ told the Associated Press the exact opposite: that it intends to try Mr. Abrego in this District before removing him to a third country. Because DOJ has made directly contradictory statements on this issue in the last 18 hours, and because we cannot put any faith in any representation made on this issue by the DOJ, we respectfully request to delay the issuance of the release order until the July 16 hearing on the government’s motion for revocation. A short delay will prevent the government from removing Mr. Abrego and allow time for the government to provide reliable information concerning its intentions.
The irony of this request is not lost on anyone. After illegally removing Mr. Abrego to El Salvador, the government retrieved him, brought him to this District, and indicted him on baseless charges. Mr. Abrego has spent the last two weeks contesting his unlawful detention under the Bail Reform Act. See ECF 29, 49. In a just world, he would not seek to prolong his detention further. And yet the government -- a government that has, at all levels, told the American people that it is bringing Mr. Abrego back home to the United States to face “American justice” -- apparently has little interest in actually bringing this case to trial. Instead, it has chosen to bring Mr. Abrego back only to convict him in the court of public opinion, including with respect to allegations found nowhere in the actual charges, while boldly announcing that Mr. Abrego “will not walk free in our country again. . . .”
The government has done so while allowing a cooperator with two felony convictions and five prior deportations to be released from a 30-month sentence for human smuggling to a halfway house, in order to build up a sham of a criminal case against Mr. Abrego. And when Mr. Abrego revealed the weaknesses in that case -- securing the pretrial release to which he is entitled -- the government threatened to remove him to a third country. . . .
Given these unique and unforeseen circumstances, Mr. Abrego respectfully requests a short delay of the issuance of the release order until July 16. . . .
These are truly. . . banal, evil people -- under Noem, at ICE/DHS. They repeatedly have called the Nashville charges "trafficking" -- which they are not; the indictment is. . . smuggling (essentially giving a ride, without IDs" -- with no proof of anyone being under age). They are lying to the press, in order to demonize an accused whose case they have woefully mishandled. Finally, now -- they can't even keep their prior lies / stories straight. Damn. Onward.
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