cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49616361
Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year has helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. His attorneys claim the administration is now manipulating the immigration system in order to punish him for successfully challenging that deportation.
A motion from the government filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland late on Friday says officials have received assurances from Liberia that Abrego Garcia would not face persecution or torture there. Further, it says an immigration officer heard Abrego Garcia’s claims that he feared deportation to the West African nation, but ruled against him.
His attorneys argue in a separate Friday filing that Abrego Garcia has already designated Costa Rica as a country where he is willing to be deported. They claim the government now must send him there. The fact that officials continue to pursue deportation to other countries is evidence that the process is retaliatory and violates due process protections, they argue.
Yeah, fair point. I had a counter I wanted to make, but it sounded more like US apologia than defense of Liberia’s national identity, so I’ll settle with “it’s a tricky subject”, which is hard to disagree with, haha
I mean, you are technically correct that Liberia has nominal independence… but it’s the same kind of correct as saying that the US has full democracy.