The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal. Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.
The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, though his attorneys said there is no evidence he was in the gang, and he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime.
The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, where he is being held in a notorious prison, but also argued that it no longer could do anything about it.
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Trump says Mexico owes Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under a 1944 treaty, and he’s threatening sanctions to try and force its compliance.
An acre foot is the amount of water needed to cover 1 acre of land to a depth of 1 foot.
Trump posted on his social media site that Mexico is “unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation. This is very unfair.”
He wrote that Mexico “has been stealing water from Texas Farmers” and suggested that the U.S. southern neighbor’s holding out on its water obligations was to blame for Texas’ “only sugar mill” closing last year.
Trump also wrote that he’d also recently “halted water shipments” to Tijuana, on Mexico’s border with California, to try and force compliance with the 1944 water treaty.
He added: “We will keep escalating consequences, including TARIFFS and, maybe even SANCTIONS, until Mexico honors the Treaty, and GIVES TEXAS THE WATER THEY ARE OWED!”
Trump is calling the helicopter that crashed upside-down into New York City’s Hudson River “terrible.”
“Looks like six people, the pilot, two adults, and three children, are no longer with us,” Trump posted on his social media site. “The footage of the accident is horrendous. God bless the families and friends of the victims.”
The president wrote that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his staff “are on it.” He added that “announcements as to exactly what took place, and how, will be made shortly!”
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Trump says he wants William “Billy” Marshall III tapped as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In a post on his social media site, the president said Marshall “has a distinguished” law enforcement career, “rising from the ranks of the West Virginia State Police to serving as the current Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”
Trump added that Marshall is “a Strong Advocate for LAW AND ORDER. He understands the struggles of our prisons better than anyone, and will help fix our broken Criminal Justice System.”
Usually the attorney general, not the president, makes appoints to be director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The position doesn’t require confirmation from the Senate.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia, now being held in a notorious Salvadoran prison, returned to the U.S. by midnight Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts had paused Xinis’ order to give the court time to weigh the issue.
That deadline has now passed, and the justices directed the judge to clarify her order to take into account how the transfer could affect foreign affairs — specifically the relationship with El Salvador. The high court also said the administration should be prepared to share what steps it already has taken and what it still might do.
The court’s liberal justices said the administration should have hastened to correct “its egregious error” and was “plainly wrong” to suggest it could not bring him home.
“The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by her two colleagues.
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The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.
The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, where he is being held in a notorious prison, but also argued that it no longer could do anything about it.
▶ Read more about the court’s decision
A federal judge says she will halt the Trump administration from ending a program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to temporarily live in the U.S.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said Thursday she will issue a stay on the program, which was set to end l...
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