The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorean national wrongfully deported to his home country, must remain in the CECOT dungeon until authorities there have had the proper time to torture him, strip him of every last ounce of human dignity and provide more Trump officials with the opportunity for photo ops with his torturers.
Garcia, who was never convicted of a crime either in El Salvador or the United States and was protected by court order from deportation, was nonetheless arrested by ICE and flown in chains to the massive prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled Garcia’s deportation unlawful and ordered that the Trump administration return him to the United States by 11:59 Monday.
Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay against the order, arguing that “the District Court in Maryland clearly infringed on the right of a foreign country to torture a man illegally deported from the United States with absolutely no due process, and this court will never abide such an egregious injustice.”