Kilmar Abrego Garcia Update

At The Bulwark Andrew Egger provides (Scroll Down/Search to Justice for Kilmar.) an update on the Trump Administration's continued persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

After noting Abrego Garcia's peculiar status of being both an immigrant and, by virtue of insisting on due process, one of Trump's personal enemies, Egger provides the following update:

On Friday, Abrego Garcia walked free for the first time in months -- released from prison in Tennessee and permitted to return to his Maryland home. But his reprieve was short-lived. He met this morning with ICE officials in Baltimore. And, as expected, they immediately took him back into immigration custody.

The federal government has presented Abrego Garcia with a ridiculous, brutal choice. Under the plea deal they have offered him, he would serve a jail sentence, then be deported to Costa Rica. In exchange, he would have to plead guilty to smuggling charges -- the same charges Trump lackeys like Pam Bondi have preposterously used to try to accuse Abrego Garcia of "human trafficking."

To try to coerce Abrego Garcia to take the deal, immigration authorities have floated a much more grisly possibility: immediate re-deportation to Uganda, a country where Abrego Garcia has never been and has no ties. [links and footnotes removed, bold added]

Egger speculates as to what Trump hopes to accomplish by doubling down on this injustice, before urging us that, Trump's many other abuses must not give him cover to vengefully oppress Abrego Garcia.

I completely agree: The nature of due process means that, like it or not, we are all Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whether we know it or not.

-- CAV