DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a>: “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> Prison After <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Ruling</p><p>Story April 08, 2025</p><p>"The Supreme Court has paused a lower court order that instructed the Trump administration to immediately bring back a U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LegalResident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LegalResident</span></a> who was 'mistakenly' sent to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a>, giving the court more time to deliberate on the case. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KilmarAbregoGarcia</span></a>, who was expelled from the U.S. on March 15 despite holding protected status, will continue to languish under dangerous conditions in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison. The Trump administration claims it’s powerless to bring him back to his family in Maryland. </p><p>"'They have dug in their heels at every step of the way,' says Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, about the government’s defense. 'It’s ridiculous that this case is at the Supreme Court at all.'</p><p>"Behind Abrego Garcia’s ICE arrest and removal is Trump’s invocation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1798AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1798AlienEnemiesAct</span></a>, a wartime authority last deployed during <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWarII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWarII</span></a>. In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court has approved of the Trump administration’s removals of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Venezuelan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuelan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a>, but said that those targeted must be given an opportunity to challenge their removal. So far, immigrants expelled to El Salvador have been largely denied their legal rights and detained without clear evidence. </p><p>"They are then incarcerated in the country’s '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MegaPrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MegaPrisons</span></a>,' where [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>] abuses have flourished under El Salvador’s 'state of exception.' 'These conditions constitute, under international law, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedDisappearances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedDisappearances</span></a>,' says Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, a human rights organization in @CentralAmerica."</p><p>Listen / watch / read transcript:<br><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/supreme_court_el_salvador_ice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/4/8/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme_court_el_salvador_ice</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ViewerSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViewerSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IllegalDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IllegalDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecretPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecretPolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConstitutionalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCompromised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCompromised</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCorrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCorrupt</span></a></p>