Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his family gathered with hundreds outside the ICE field in Baltimore as he entered to face imminent federal detention. The Trump administration is attempting to transfer Abrego Garcia from the United States to Uganda through paid arrangements with countries that have poor human-rights records, risking indefinite incarceration and torture. Abrego Garcia was previously sent to an El Salvadoran slave-labor prison because of an acknowledged Justice Department administrative error, and a judge ordered his return to family. The Justice Department lawyer who admitted the error was punished, and the administration acted as if errors must be concealed rather than corrected.
The Trump administration is attempting to abduct Abrego Garcia as part of a human-trafficking operation in which it pays countries with atrocious human-rights records to incarcerate people who had been US immigrants. It wants to send Abrego Garcia-born in El Salvador, living in Temple Hills, Maryland- to Uganda, where he could be jailed indefinitely, tortured, and God knows what else.
Abrego Garcia's "crime," we must recall, was no crime at all. The Trump Justice Department admitted in court that it had imprisoned him and sent him to an El Salvadoran slave-labor prison due to an "administrative error." The judge was appalled, particularly that Abrego Garcia-a union worker legally in the United States-was sent to be brutalized in El Salvador without due process, and the judge insisted that he be brought back to his family.
He is suffering because the Trump regime's autocratic outlook is defined by the idea that it cannot make any mistakes. The great leader, and by extension his slavishly loyal hacks, must be infallible. Therefore, in Abrego Garcia's case, the person fired by the Justice Department was not the one who made the "administrative error," but the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who admitted it in court. Think about it: The Trump administration fired a Justice Department attorney for not lying to a judge.
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