By Katherine Tinsley
12:58am PDT, Apr 16, 2025
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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported to El Salvador despite legally living in Maryland with his wife after he was accused of being a member of the MS-13 gang. He was then stripped of his right of due process and was never offered a fair trial.
Donald Trump's team called the deportation "an administrative error," but
Kristi Noem is doubling down on their public mistake.
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The Supreme Court ruled Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia needed to be removed from prison in El Salvador and returned home.
"Tonight, the rule of law prevailed," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia's attorneys, said. "The Supreme Court upheld the District Judge's order that the government has to bring Kilmar home. Now they need to stop wasting time and get moving."
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Despite the Supreme Court's ruling, Donald Trump's administration has made minimal efforts to remove Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from prison.
"Yes, I think that what the Supreme Court said here in this decision was a very clear message to other judges across this country, is that stop acting like you have the authority to dictate foreign policy and national security decisions that the president is making to protect its citizens," Kristi Noem said on Fox & Friends on Monday, April 14.
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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has yet to be convicted of a crime in the U.S. or El Salvador.
"This was just one of those examples of an individual that was an MS-13 gang member, had multiple charges and encounters with the individuals here… trafficking in his background, was found with other MS-13 gang members, very dangerous person," Kristi Noem said in defense of the Trump admin mistake.
"And what the liberal left and the fake news are doing to turn him into a media darling is sickening," she added.
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Advisor Stephen Miller explained why Donald Trump's team cannot bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia home to Maryland.
"We won the Supreme Court case, clearly, 9-0," Stephen Miller said. "A district court judge said, unconscionably, that the president and his administration have to go into El Salvador, and extradite one of their citizens — an El Salvadoran citizen — so that would be kidnapping," Miller told Fox News. "That we have to kidnap an El Salvadoran citizen against the will of his government and fly him back to America, which would be an unimaginable act, an invasion of El Salvador sovereignty."
According to the advisor, the ruling "clearly" read that "no district court can compel the president to exercise his Article II foreign powers in any way whatsoever."
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El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele hinted at keeping Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia imprisoned despite him being wrongfully deported.
"How can I return him to the United States? Like if I smuggle him into the United States?" Bukele said while sitting next to Donald Trump on Sunday, April 14. "Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous."
"We're not very fond of releasing terrorists," Bukele replied after a journalist asked if Garcia would be freed in El Salvador.
