The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return to the US a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, agreeing to a request from President Donald Trump that will give the justices more time to consider the case.
  • Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    68·
    8 months ago

    Can someone tell me if I am wrong.
    Would this not set a precedent, if the Supreme court agrees with the White House, that if one man can be “wrongly deported” this gives the White House and ICE the ability to “wrongly deport” anyone they don’t like since we don’t have to bring them back?

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      51·
      8 months ago

      A temporary stay by one justice does not create a legal precedent. Whatever the full supreme court rules in this case will create a legal precedent.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    57·
    8 months ago

    The Justice Department told the Supreme Court that ordering officials to return the man is “unprecedented”

    Funny that they’re fine with the unprecedented deportation of innocent people to life imprisonment in savage foreign prisons without due process …

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    433·
    8 months ago

    And let that be a LESSON to all you LIBTARDS! If Trump doesn’t LIKE YOU he can Send You to an EL SALVADOR PRISON with NO RECOURSE!

    -Soon to be Illegally Homeless Law and Order White Republicans!

          • cogman@lemmy.world
            15·
            8 months ago

            And, to be clear, 2019 was under the trump admin. I can’t stress enough how crystal clear and dire someone’s case would have had to have been for Trump’s immigration judges to grant asylum. They were giving that out to basically nobody during his first term. Except for I guess this guy.

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
        91·
        8 months ago

        Just FYI, I very much doubt that there are segregated units there. CNN did a piece about this prison. It is designed to be degrading and inhumane.

        In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men are held for 23.5 hours a day and “the only furniture is tiered metal bunks, with no sheets, pillows or mattresses … an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing and a large jug for drinking water.”

        …

        The CNN team that visited in late 2024 described the deprivation as “deliberate,” noting the men were allowed out of their crowded cells for just 30 minutes a day, that “there is no privacy here, no trace of comfort” and the lights are on 24/7.

        “They do not work. They are not allowed books or a deck of cards or letters from home. Plates of food are stacked outside the cells at mealtimes and pulled through the bars. No meat is ever served. The 30-minute daily respite is merely to leave the cell for the central hallway for group exercise or Bible readings,” wrote CNN’s David Culver and his team.

        Inmates are not allowed visits from family or friends and some of them must face the possibility that they will never be released.

        • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          1 open toilet for 80 men… 1… 1… 1… I cannot wrap my head around that singular inhumane fact. Everything about this is horrible, but this is devilry incarnate. The most basic human needs that you cannot control, the most disgusting ones that no one wishes to have be unhygienic and public… make no mistake, that toilet is never clean if it even works at all and 80 men definitely cannot all hold it 24/7 while someone else is using the damn thing. This is horror.

      • DBT@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Someone in the cell he’s in would have to recognize him tho. I don’t know how possible that is. And it doesn’t seem like inmates are able to really communicate. If he’s housed with a bunch of other inmates who were also deported from the US, I feel like (hope) he’s probably not going to be recognized.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      dude’s been in there for weeks now; he’s going to end up with psychological trauma at the very least and his family is going to pay the price for it.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 months ago

    In this case, I think the morality around leaving him there is more important than a power struggle over what the courts can and can’t tell the president to do.

    Hell… Trump COULD try to get him returned, but it’s still choosing not to