"The entire press conference was staged, like a badly written play, and staged to set up tomorrow's status hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and with it try to chip away at due process for undocumented people. Yes, in the longer run, Trump wants to set up the legal path to use CECOT as a concentration camp, including for Americans."
"As far as we know, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a unique fact set among the people deported in the March 15 flights, and my guess is that after John Sauer came in, he decided to reset how DOJ deals with Abrego Garcia because he 1) had a negative ruling in 2019 and 2) is an undocumented Salvadoran citizen."
Stewart Rhodes remains an adjudged terrorist while Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not. The press conference with Nayib Bukele presented claims that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist without challenge. The event appeared staged to influence the upcoming status hearing and to erode due process protections for undocumented people. Short-term aims include reversing Supreme Court rulings guaranteeing habeas access before deportation and limiting where Abrego Garcia could be removed. After John Sauer joined DOJ, the agency shifted its approach to Abrego Garcia, influenced by a 2019 adverse ruling and Abrego Garcia's undocumented Salvadoran citizenship. Unsigned, rehearsed statements at the presser misstated prior rulings.
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