The White House is not under orders to “effectuate” the return of deported Maryland resident and immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, only to “facilitate” it, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday afternoon.
Leavitt was asked during a press briefing if Trump wanted Abrego Garcia to accompany Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele during his trip to visit President Donald Trump next week. Abrego Garcia was deported to a megaprison in El Salvador last month and has since been ordered returned to the United States after being wrongly removed from the country.
“The Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear,” Leavitt said. “That is the administration’s responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate the return.”
Reporter: The president of El Salvador coming to the white house Monday, does Trump want him to bring Abrego Garcia with him?
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The Supreme Court has mandated the Trump administration “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia to the U.S. after he was wrongly deported without due process under the Alien Enemies Act executive order as the result of an “administrative error” on the federal government’s part.
The Trump Justice Department had requested the highest court pass over Judge Paula Xinis’s order to bring back Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland who has legal status to be present in the U.S. despite being an illegal immigrant.
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Xinis is a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
The Trump administration was supposed to share the status of Abrego Garcia’s return in federal court Friday morning, but instead, it asked for a deadline extension on the update.
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