Trump says he is unable to return immigrants. But he did so before.
In August 2018, during the first term of President Trump, an Iraqi immigrant named Mounir Suwani lost.
A refugee who had been living in the United States for nearly 25 years, and Mr. Sobiani was among the hundreds of Iraqis who were protected by the deportation under the Federal Court. His lawyers believed that he was still in the enforcement of migration and customs, as he was placed after he was swept into an ice raid.
The search for the federal ICE database has not shown anything, so the lawyers went to the Ministry of Justice, looking for an answer. Within one day, they got one.
The government said it had made a mistake, according to Margo Schlelanger, a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Michigan and was one of the lawyers of Mr. Sobaihani. Mr. Subaihani was deported to Iraq, in violation of the court’s order.
The case led to a striking similarity with those that are now playing during Mr. Trump’s second term, after the United States deported Salvaduri because the government confessed was a “administrative mistake.”
But the Trump administration’s response in both cases cannot be more different, and it is a sign of the extent to which Mr. Trump is encouraged to challenge the courts and in his determination to take a large line of deportation, regardless of legal restrictions.
In the case of Mr. Subaihani, the government realized its mistake in the Federal Court, which led to an Audissi tracking for months to track down and recover a man who should not be deported in the first place.
Al Salvaduri, 29 -year -old, faces a 29 -year -old Cellardo Araldo Garcia. Trump officials accused Mr. Abyerigo Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang, although he was never accused of being in a gang and admitting his deportation was a mistake.
American officials will not have to search far to find Mr. Abrego Garcia because they know exactly where he is: the reputable Salvadori prison known as the Terrorism Center. But Mr. Trump and his senior officials argued that the case was outside their hands. It is the Trump administration that only El Salvador can decide to send a man back.
In a hearing at the Federal Provincial Court in Maryland on Tuesday, Judge Paula Xinis broke out the Trump administration to withdraw them in compliance with the Supreme Court order that directs the White House “to facilitate” the release of Mr. Alago Garcia. Judge Shinis also indicated that she would order the government to provide information about what it was or did not do to liberate Mr. Alago Garcia, and he is the father of three married American citizen.
President Nayb Bohkel, Al Salvador, a Trump ally who visited the White House on Monday, explained that he would not send Mr. Abrago Garcia to the United States, describing the “unhelpful” idea.
“The administration’s unwillingness to work to return Mr. Parisia to the United States is exactly the opposite of how it dealt with the case of Mr. Sobiani,” said Myriam Okrman, a lawyer for the Civil Liberties Union in Michigan. “Ice went immediately and positively to the court to recognize that he had violated the court’s order, then worked – pursuant to the courts of the court – to facilitate his return, including coordination with the American embassy in Iraq and communicating with the Iraqi government.”
In one of the court document on August 23, 2018, the government owned its mistake, saying that Mr. Subaihani was transferred to Iraq despite the court’s order.
The location of Mr. Subaihani was complicated because no one knows where he went, or even if he had arrived in Iraq. By September 2018, several weeks after the deportation of Mr. Sobayi, a federal judge in the ice heading to the extreme to find him.
Ice officials, explaining to the court that they were in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iraq and in other countries that it moved to. They even contacted flight officials – Mr. Subaihani was deported on a commercial flight – to learn more about his whereabouts.
In late September, ICE officials informed the court that they had found evidence by Mr. Sobiani to Iraq. By October, Mr. Sobaihani’s lawyers tracked him with the help of an investigator, and began working with ICE to return him to the United States.
Mr. Sobaihani told NPR at that time that he had been hid during his stay in Iraq.
He said at the station, “I stayed in this house for six months. I will not go anywhere,” he said at the station. WPLN, affiliated with Nashville NPR. “It is not safe.”
In January 2019, he returned to the American soil.
“I am very happy,” He said. “I can’t believe it.” His location is currently unknown.
The following steps for Mr. Alago Garcia are unclear. His wife, Jennifer Vaskuiz, said that Trump’s departments and an agent playing “political games” with her husband’s life.
She said: “My heart is heavy, but I stick to hope and strength around me.”