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BumRushDaShow

(154,046 posts)
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:15 AM Yesterday

Trump says Department of Justice made decision to bring back Abrego Garcia

Source: Reuters

June 7, 2025 3:20 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago


June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday it was the Department of Justice, not him, that made the decision to bring back to the U.S. a man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was flown back to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants within the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday. His return marked an inflection point in a case seized on by critics of Trump's immigration crackdown as a sign that his administration was disregarding civil liberties in its push to step up deportations of migrants.

"Well, that wasn't my decision. The Department of Justice decided to do it that way, and that's fine," Trump told NBC News in an interview when asked about Abrego Garcia's return. Trump added that he had not spoken to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele about the move.

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran whose wife and young child in Maryland are U.S. citizens, appeared in federal court in Nashville on Friday evening. His arraignment was set for June 13, when he will enter a plea, according to local media reports. Until then, he will remain in federal custody.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-department-justice-made-decision-bring-back-abrego-garcia-2025-06-07/

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Trump says Department of Justice made decision to bring back Abrego Garcia (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
As if those bootlickers do anything on their own. Klarkashton Yesterday #1
The trump Family Circus is back in reprints. Grokenstein Yesterday #2
BS WestMichRad Yesterday #3
A Trump Ho only does what Trump orders and pays them to do. Irish_Dem Yesterday #4
The same DOJ who told the courts they couldn't bring him back? sinkingfeeling Yesterday #5
And not only that BumRushDaShow Yesterday #6
Seems like there was one hell of a lot of "LYING" republianmushroom Yesterday #7
What about the others? bfoxmatt Yesterday #8
What I meant to say is... bfoxmatt Yesterday #9
Different ones have their own lawyers who are handling cases BumRushDaShow Yesterday #11
Still reeling from the moniker "TACO", hey Donnie Thin Skin??? llmart Yesterday #10
Sounds like bullshit orangecrush 21 hrs ago #12
Who cares who made the decision William769 19 hrs ago #13
Sure. And Vance is in charge of the tariffs. reACTIONary 18 hrs ago #14
Abrego Garcia's lawyers argue Maryland case is not over until government is 'held accountable' LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #15

Klarkashton

(3,452 posts)
1. As if those bootlickers do anything on their own.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:20 AM
Yesterday

We know how trump runs that place, just like he runs his business, nobody does anything without approval.

When it always turns to shit he blames everybody else.

This is a nightmare.

WestMichRad

(2,322 posts)
3. BS
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 05:29 AM
Yesterday

Sort of:
“Find a way to get this out of the news.”

The phony baloney charges are the best these DOJ clowns could come up with.

republianmushroom

(20,154 posts)
7. Seems like there was one hell of a lot of "LYING"
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:49 AM
Yesterday

from this administration about not being able to return Mr. Garcia.

bfoxmatt

(25 posts)
8. What about the others?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:45 PM
Yesterday

Should they bring back every single person they sent off without due process?

bfoxmatt

(25 posts)
9. What I meant to say is...
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:47 PM
Yesterday

Shouldn't they bring back every single person they sent off without due process? And what about all the ones being held now in this country? The best advice I've seen for protesting: If violence starts, everyone should just sit down and be quiet, then everyone can see who is causing the violence. Probably some of Dump's cronies!

BumRushDaShow

(154,046 posts)
11. Different ones have their own lawyers who are handling cases
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:54 PM
Yesterday

and judges have ordered that they be returned. However not all of the cases are being reported because the media would rather focus on P-Diddy or Taylor Swift or Beyonce's "wardrobe malfunction" and other "entertainment" stuff.

llmart

(16,444 posts)
10. Still reeling from the moniker "TACO", hey Donnie Thin Skin???
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:17 PM
Yesterday

He doesn't want to be seen as having backed down once again.

LetMyPeopleVote

(164,359 posts)
15. Abrego Garcia's lawyers argue Maryland case is not over until government is 'held accountable'
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:09 PM
1 hr ago

Bondi and the DOJ are still subject to sanctions and other remedies. This case should not be dismissed without sanctions

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers argue Maryland case is not over until government is ‘held accountable’

IL Valley Connected (@ilvalleyconnected.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T16:35:08.882Z

https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-lawyers-argue-maryland-case-government-held/story?id=122652258&cid=social_twitter_abcnp

To characterize the Trump administration as "having complied" with a federal judge's order to facilitate the return of mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "pure farce," his attorneys said in a court filing.

The filing, on Sunday, came two days after Abrego Garcia was brought back to the U.S. from his native El Salvador to face criminal charges in Tennessee, following a series of court battles in which the Trump administration repeatedly said it was unable to bring him back.

In April, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States after he was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- based on the Trump administration's claimed that he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which his wife and attorneys deny......

In Sunday's filing, Abrego Garcia's attorneys said Maryland case it not over until the government is "held accountable" for "its blatant, willful, and persistent violations of court orders at excruciating cost to Abrego Garcia and his family." They argued that, despite his return, the case is "not moot" because the court continues to have a role "to ensure that [Abrego Garcia's] case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

The lawyers said the Trump administration "has acted not just in contempt of multiple court orders but with open defiance towards its coequal branch of government, the judiciary."
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