Trump DOJ tells courts to pound sand, not their place to order MS-13 member back to US

An Obama judge ordered the Trump administration on April 4 to bring a deported MS-13 member — found by more than one immigration court to be a “danger to the community” — back to the United States. Days later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the lower court’s ruling in part, noting that the administration must “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return.

The Trump administration, ever defiant, effectively told the federal courts to pound sand, which is for the best because Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he does not intend to release Abrego Garcia.

Attorneys for the government indicated in a Sunday filing that while the high court had instructed the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return, “reading ‘facilitate’ as requiring

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