The U.S. government deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia by mistake to a notorious El Salvador maximum security prison, where many prisoners don’t survive. Mr. Abrego Garcia was lawfully in the United States.
To allow the Trump administration to keep an innocent person in this deplorable jail is cruel and dishonorable. It demonstrates a deep lack of care and concern for everyday individuals.
And this lawlessness threatens the freedom of every American citizen. If our laws don’t require the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia after he was mistakenly deported to the El Salvador prison, what is to prevent the Trump administration from deporting any of us “by mistake” to a foreign prison, with no right to be returned to this country.
In an April 13 legal filing, the Trump administration repeated its view that the federal courts cannot order Mr. Abrego Garcia returned to the United States, arguing that courts have no authority to deal with matters involving foreign countries.
The U.S. Supreme Court must decide unanimously that, when core constitutional values are at risk, U.S. courts must intervene to protect those rights, irrespective of any foreign involvement. Those rights should not be easily side-stepped by deporting people to foreign prisons.
Mark Hennessey,
Pepper Pike
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