The Department of Justice on Friday claimed the placement of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland- primarily based Salvadoran immigrant incorrectly deported to an El Salvador megaprison with hundreds of offenders and gang individuals final month, are unidentified.
The admission follows the Supreme Court maintained a decreased authorities court docket’s alternative Thursday to assist with Garcia’s return from the Central American jail. It likewise follows united state District Judge Paula Xinis purchased the DOJ to ship much more particulars regarding Garcia adhering to the SCOTUS judgment.
Xinis on Thursday night time purchased the DOJ to submit the adhering to particulars no behind 9:30 a.m. on Friday: “(1) the current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia; (2) what steps, if any, Defendants have taken to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s immediate return to the United States; and (3) what additional steps Defendants will take, and when, to facilitate his return.”
Later on Friday, she requested day-to-day updates regarding Abrego Garcia’s space and what the federal authorities is doing to advertise his return.
DOJ authorities and AbregoGarcia’s legal professionals had a listening to in authorities court docket on Friday mid-day, whereupon Judge Xinis repetitively requested DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign regarding Garcia’s location.
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This undated picture provided by Murray Osorio PLLC applicationsKilmar Abrego Garcia (Murray Osorio PLLC by way of AP)
“Where is he and under whose authority?” Xinis claimed in court docket Friday.
“I do not have that information,” Ensign reacted, together with that Abrego Garcia is presently within the wardship of Salvadoran authorities which authorities didn’t provide verification of his location earlier than the Friday listening to.
“I’m not asking for state secrets. I’m asking where one man is.”
“I’m not asking for state secrets. I’m asking where one man is,” Xinis claimed. “The government was prohibited from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question: Where is he?”
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“I do not have that information,” Ensign claimed.
In this undated picture provided by the united state District Court for the District of Maryland, a male acknowledged by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her different half, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is led forcibly by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca,El Salvador (UNITED STATE District Court for the District of Maryland by way of AP) ( UNITED STATE District Court for the District of Maryland by way of AP)
“I am asking a very simple question. Where is he?” Xinis duplicated
“I do not have any information,”Ensign reiterated. “I do not have plaintiffs’ assertion that he is in El Salvador under the control of that government. The government has not submitted any evidence that would be contrary to that.”
“There’s no evidence as to where he is today. And that is extremely troubling.”
Xinis higher requested if the federal authorities had really achieved something to assist with Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, to which Ensign reacted it was “unclear” if they’d.
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“That means they haven’t done anything,” Xinis claimed. “Despite this court’s directive, your clients have done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Garcia. To say to me that you don’t have personal knowledge means that you don’t have effective contact with your clients.”
Justice Department legal professionals on Friday claimed they’re uninformed of Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location after he was deported to a Salvadoran jail final month. (Fox News)
Ensign claimed the federal authorities is “evaluating what can be shared and is not yet prepared to resolve that question.”
The 2 went backwards and forwards repetitively in regards to the data of Abrego Garcia’s state of affairs.
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Xinis claimed it’s “quite clear the government is playing a game with their own lawyers.”
The DOJ likewise despatched a written response within the authorities state of affairs Friday specifying that “[d]efendants are unable to provide the information requested by the Court on the impracticable deadline set by the Court hours after the Supreme Court issued its order.”
A warder transfers refugees from the united state to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Sunday. (El Salvador governmental press office by way of AP)
“The Supreme Court’s order directs the Court to ‘clarify its directive…’ The Court has not yet clarified what it means to ‘facilitate’ or ‘effectuate’ the return as it relates to this case, as Plaintiff is in the custody of a foreign sovereign,” DOJ authorized representatives created. “Defendants request— and require—the opportunity to brief that issue prior to being subject to any compliance deadlines. Needless to say, Defendants were under no obligation to take action under the court’s order while it was administratively stayed by the Chief Justice of the United States.”
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DOJ legal professionals included that the federal government court docket didn’t provide an sufficient amount of time to “review the Supreme Court’s Order following the dissolution of the administrative stay in this case.”
“Defendants are not in a position where they ‘can’ share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality.”
They further specified within the court docket declaring that the DOJ accuseds are evaluating SCOTUS order and “actively evaluating next steps.”
A jail policeman guards a cell at optimum security and safety penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4, 2025, in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. ( (Photo by Alex Pe ña/Getty Images))
“It is unreasonable and impracticable for Defendants to reveal potential steps before those steps are reviewed, agreed upon, and vetted. Foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines, in part because it involves sensitive country-specific considerations wholly inappropriate for judicial review,” Ensign and numerous different DOJ legal professionals created.
Federal court docket filings revealed Abrego Garcia had really gotten away El Salvador to run away gang bodily violence. Starting round 2006, gang individuals “stalked, hit, and threatened to kidnap and kill him in order to coerce his parents to succumb to their increasing demands for extortion.”
He went into the United States unlawfully in 2011 and took a visit to Maryland, the place his older sibling, a united state individual, lived.
Around 2016, Abrego Garcia got here to be passionately included with a ladies united state individual– Jennifer Vasquez Sura– and her 2 children, likewise united state folks. They relocated with one another and the girl conceived along with his teenager. Abrego Garcia operated within the constructing and development sector to maintain his family, court docket filings state.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the higher half of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, that was incorrectly deported to El Salvador, talks all through a press convention at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
On March 28, 2019, Abrego Garcia mosted prone to a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland, to acquire work and was employed by 3 numerous different males. Prince George County Police Department rapidly reached the scene and apprehended all 4 males.
At the police headquarters, the 4 boys have been put proper into numerous areas and examined. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was requested if he was a gang participant; when he knowledgeable authorities he was not, they claimed that they didn’t suppose him and repetitively required that he provide particulars regarding numerous different gang individuals,” court docket paperwork state. “The authorities informed Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that he would certainly be launched if he coordinated, however he repetitively clarified that he did not have any type of details to offer due to the fact that he did not understand anything.”
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A decide later granted his launch, and Abrego Garcia married his now-wife in 2019. He did, nevertheless, miss the start of his baby whereas in federal custody, the federal grievance says.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on March 12 after he labored a shift as a sheet steel apprentice in Baltimore and picked up his now-5-year-old son, who has autism and different disabilities, from his grandmother’s home, the grievance says.
