Judge Boasberg Gives Trump Admin New Directive in Deportations Case

That goes to the president’s belief about the influence that he has,

Kambli said

No, that’s not what I’m saying at all,

Kambli said

I’m not going to necessarily parse out every statement,

Kambli demurred

Is that another way of saying these statements just aren’t true?”

the judge said

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Didn’t the president say just last week that he could secure the return of Abrego Garcia just by picking up the phone and asking El Slavador to release him – so is the president telling the truth?”

Boasberg asked an attorney for the Justice Department

I think plaintiffs may well have sufficiently made out a case for constructive custody,

he said at one point during the hearing Wednesday afternoon but added

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Is the president not telling the truth?"

Boasberg asked Justice Department lawyer Abishek Kambl

Stephanie A. Gallagherjudge

Standing by and taking no action is not facilitation,

Gallagher said

It is an axiomatic principle of contract law that when a defendant breaches a contract, that defendant must restore the situation that existed before the breach,

the judge wrote in her order, which she issued last month

It may be that the result here for Cristian is no asylum,

she said

It’s not a substitute for the process that was due. Process is important,

the judge said

There is some urgency here. We have a 20-year-old young man who’s in prison in El Salvador for almost two months,

the judge said

Stephanie A. Gallagherjudge

Like Judge Xinis in the Abrego Garcia matter, this court will order Defendants to facilitate Christian's return to the United States so that he can receive the process he was entitled to under the parties' binding Settlement Agreement."

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher wrote

It turns out that … the one who’s surprised is me: They took him to El Salvador, as if they were animals, as if my son were a criminal, just for having tattoos on his body,

she said in Spanish

My son isn’t one of Tren de Aragua,

his mother, Daniela Camargo, declared in a tearful Facebook video

We filed this motion to hold the government accountable to the promises it made to the Court and to the thousands of vulnerable young people whose futures depend on the integrity of this process,

the attorneys wrote

Please share Daniel’s story, it could save his life.”

The press coverage led to his story appearing on a Facebook page featuring “the Disappeared,” which says