Trump Administration releases the privilege of the state secretary in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

Washington – The Trump administration seems to have appointed the privilege of the state secretion to reserve information in the case that deals with the wrong distance Kilmar Abrego Garcia To El Salvador and all the efforts of the Trump government to bring him back to the United States.

The assertion of the privilege by the administration was unveiled in a command of the US district judge Paula Xinis, who asked the lawyers for Abego Garcia and the Ministry of Justice, to submit additional legal articles on the “Privileges of Administration, mainly the state secrets and advisory process”.

Xinis gave the two sides by Monday to submit the submissions “for the legal and factual foundations for the request of these privileges”, including an application from Abrego Garcia's lawyers that the court can carry out a review of the “receded documents”. The judge also made a hearing for May 16 in the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Ministry of Justice stated last month that it would convene certain authorizations to protect information about the removal of Abrego Garcia from the USA.

Administrative lawyers had said infamous prison In order to accommodate deportations from the USA, “demands the immediate generation of classified documents and documents that the accused can choose to protect the lawyer mandant privilege and the state secret.”

Xinis announced a lawyer during a hearing last month that they have to give reason for every claim, and she will make a decision on whether he can stand.

The Trump government has the privilege of state secrets previously appointedIn a case in which the deportations of Venezuelan migrants are referred to in the Salvadorical prison, the terrorism boundary center or Cecot.

In Abrego Garcia's case, Xinis had ordered the Trump administration to hand over documents to his lawyers and allowed them to carry out deposits with certain administrative officials. Some of the records were initially due last month, but Xinis agreed to push back Your deadlines after the Trump administration submitted information under Seal with the court. The day before, Xinis had accused the administration to show a “intentional and poor rejection of the discovery obligations”.

According to the recent arrangement of the judge, the Trump administration had until Monday to respond to outstanding discovery inquiries and to answer and provide information about their calling out privileges. The deposits of four officers from home protection and the Foreign Ministry should be completed by Friday.

Xinis allowed the accelerated process of discovery Start last month after the Trump government's legal team had accused the Trump government team not to follow your command to facilitate his return to the USA, the Supreme Court had agreed that the administration Had to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from Salvadoran Sorgerydy and make sure that his case would be treated because he would not have been properly sent to El Salvador. “

President Trump and other top administrators repeatedly said that it was to El Salvador, whether abrego Garcia, who was captured in Cecot. From April 21st he was held A facility with lower security in Santa Ana, according to an explanation of an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Abrego Garcia, who was born in El Salvador, entered the USA illegally in 2011 and has lived in Maryland since then. In 2019 he received a reluctance to remove a legal status that prevents the government from pushing him back to his home country El Salvador due to the risk of persecution by local gangs.

But Abrego Garcia was one of the hundreds of migrants sent by the Trump administration to Cecot in March.

An immigration officer of the federal government admitted that his configuration in El Salvador was an “administrative error”, but the administration has since refused to return him to the USA instead, the top administrative officer alleged Abrego Garcia is a member of the gang MS-13 and quotes allegations of a confidential informant. However, his lawyers argue that Abrego Garcia is not a member of MS-13 or another gang and has never been charged with crimes in the USA, El Salvador or another country or convicted of crimes.