"Where is he?": Furious Judge demands answers from Doj about wrongful deportation of Maryland Man | Today news

The Justice Department on Friday (April 11) told a federal judge that it could not comply with her order to provide details on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and called the court’s deadline ‘unenforceable’. US district judge Paula Xinis instructed the government to reveal Abrego Garcia’s physical location, supervisory status and steps to return to the US on Friday morning. But the Justice Department sought more time and argued that it was unable to share the information. “Where is he?” Judge claim during a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Xinis repeatedly pressed doj lawyer, Ensign drew for answers. “I don’t ask for state secrets. I ask a very simple question: Where is he? ” Xinis says strictly. Ensign said he did not get relevant details and that the administration is still evaluating the Thursday’s Supreme Court order requiring the government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release. “Your clients have done nothing to facilitate his return,” Xinis told Ensign. “I’m not sure what to take from the fact that the Supreme Court spoke quite clearly, and yet I can’t get an answer today about what you did, if something.” DOJ claims that foreign matters in immediate steps in a court submitting before the hearing, before the hearing, doj advocates said they could not comply with the order in time, referring to the sensitive nature of foreign relations: “Foreign matters cannot operate on judicial timelines, partly because it involves sensitive country-specific considerations, completely inappropriate.” They added that “it is unreasonable and unenforceable” to take steps before they are looked, and said that the court’s Richtieijn has no clarity – a point that was also noticed by the Supreme Court. Judge is planning daily updates not made by the arguments, Xinis said she intends to require daily updates from the Justice Department. “You are the officer of the court. You are the tool to represent the government, ‘she reminds of Ensign. The judge described the lack of information as “extremely worrying”. Family, advocates, in Dark Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said his client’s family and legal team had no contact with him since he was deported last month. “They clearly did not meet,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg of the government. “They play games with their own attorneys.” Abrego Garcia, 29, who was held in notorious Salvadoran Prison, was limited at El Salvador’s Cecot-Mega prison after being deported under accusations of MS-13 affiliation alleged his advocates. He has never been charged or convicted in the US or El Salvador. In the court starts, an American immigration judge in 2019 gave him protection against deportation because he probably did not face prosecution of gangs if he was returned. His removal to El Salvador was later allowed by the Trump administration as an ‘administrative error’. We pay El Salvador to keep deported. The US government pays $ 6 million to the Salvadoran government in terms of an agreement mediated with President Nayib Bukele to arrest the US deported. The Justice Department says Abrego Garcia remains in the supervision of Salvador and cannot be returned until El Salvador agrees to release him. The Supreme Court steps last week ordered Xinis Abrego Garcia’s return no later than 23:59 Monday. The order was briefly interrupted by Chief Justice John Roberts. But on Thursday, the full Supreme Court stood with Xinis and said the government should “ensure that its case was handled, as it would have been if he was not sent to El Salvador improperly.” However, the Supreme Court also asked the lower court to make it clear how the return should be “accomplished”, while recognizing the executive of foreign affairs. First published: 12 Apr 2025, 12:57 am Ist