from the executive-bullshit dept
The Trump administration simply lies and lies and lies. These in cost assume they will simply bluster their well beyond the system of checks and balances. For every part else, there’s AI generated memes depicting Trump taking a shit on the folks he serves. Win-win, I suppose.
However issues haven’t precisely been working easily for Trump’s mass deportation program — one which appears to run fully on his cupboard’s hatred for anybody who will not be fully on board the MAGA bus. That has resulted in an unprecedented variety of proficient authorities workers resigning or being fired. And there aren’t sufficient Trump loyalists round to offset this attrition fee.
The identical factor goes for Trump’s amped-up, fueled-by-hate mass deportation program. Trump advisor Stephen Miller desires 3,000 arrests per day. Former Trump lawyer/present appellate decide Emil Bove instructed DOJ attorneys to say “fuck you” to federal courts looking for to restrict the administration’s refusal to respect a reasonably massive variety of constitutional rights throughout its “immigration enforcement efforts.” Bove additionally was apparently behind the administration’s “homicide folks in boats” program.
Because the mixed forces of federal officers nonetheless by some means fail to rack up the variety of every day arrests that will make Stephen Miller erect, the DOJ continues to cope with a single arrest that has been irritating it ever since immigration officers first carried out it.
That might be the arrest of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — somebody who has refused to again down regardless of the federal government tossing him into El Salvador’s dictator-run most safety hell gap (CECOT) and being introduced again to the US (following a decide’s orders) simply to be given the unappetizing “alternative” of pleading responsible to extremely imaginative legal prices dreamed up by Trump’s vindictive DOJ or being dumped into the closest hell gap or hell hole-adjacent nation (so far: Liberia, Uganda, Ghana, and Eswatini).
The DOJ continues to assert it has to dump Garcia in a rustic the place his probabilities of survival are extremely slim as a result of no nation much less war-torn or with an El Salvadoran-esque historical past of rampant human rights violation is keen to permit an alleged legal like Garcia to name their nation residence.
However this has by no means been true. The federal government of Costa Rica — a vacation spot way more preferable than these the US authorities claims are the solely locations keen to take custody of Garcia — has repeatedly made it clear that it’s a keen host for somebody the federal government continues to faux is a harmful particular person with ties to violent criminals.
The federal government gained’t take heed to this as a result of it could reasonably ship Garcia the place it desires than grant any lodging to somebody who has continually fought again towards the administration’s bullying.
As soon as once more, the federal courtroom system is being given an opportunity to proper this incorrect. Right here’s reporting from ABC Information that displays the information specified by Garcia’s newest submitting difficult the federal government’s vindictive prosecution.
A prime Costa Rican official stated the nation continues to be keen to just accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, contradicting statements made by U.S. authorities officers in courtroom earlier this week.
“Costa Rica’s supply to obtain Mr. Abrego Garcia for humanitarian causes stays in place,” Mario Zamora, Costa Rica’s minister of safety, instructed ABC Information in a press release. “My letter dated August 25, 2025, is the official place of the federal government.”
Garcia’s movement [PDF] says the identical factor, though it quotes [PDF] (in its entirety) barely earlier reporting by the Washington Publish. That reporting names the Costa Rican official providing an official welcome to Kilmar Abrego Garcia:
Safety Minister Mario Zamora Cordero instructed The Washington Publish that he had knowledgeable the U.S. Embassy in San José in August that the federal government would settle for Abrego on humanitarian grounds and supply him authorized residency. He reiterated that Costa Rica has the “highest human rights requirements” and would obtain Abrego “below humanitarian circumstances that assure the complete respect for his rights and liberties.”
“That place that we’ve expressed up to now stays legitimate and unchanged to this present day,” Zamora Cordero stated in a press release, responding to questions from The Publish.
So, you may see how that gained’t work from the Trump administration and the ghouls it workers. This authorities has promised to present Garcia “full respect for his rights and liberties.” The USA — below Donald Trump — actually can’t be anticipated to do the identical.
And it might probably’t even be bothered to elucidate why it gained’t enable Costa Rica to turn out to be Garcia’s new residence. Again to the ABC reporting:
“Mr. Cantu, whenever you say Costa Rica isn’t an possibility for elimination … the place does that come from?” U.S. District Choose Paula Xinis interjected.
“Counsel,” [ICE Field Office Director John] Cantu stated, referring to a State Division lawyer.
Throughout the listening to, Cantu additionally struggled to reply questions on a sworn declaration he signed concerning the federal government’s communications with Costa Rica.
“Sitting right here in the present day, you can not inform me whether or not anybody from the State Division has been in contact with Costa Rica since Aug. 21, to find out whether or not communications have modified?” requested Sascha Rand, an lawyer for Abrego Garcia.
“That’s proper,” Cantu replied.
In different phrases, ICE (and the DOJ) aren’t curious about speaking to anybody who may give Garcia an possibility that’s much less merciless and vindictive than the Trump administration wishes. And if it has to take the telephone off the hook to perform this, it should — even when meaning administration officers (and any remaining DOJ prosecutors) may have their entire asses uncovered repeatedly by judges and opposing counsel.
This administration is incapable of being each good and merciless. Maybe we must always be pleased about this small grace, irrespective of how insufficient it usually appears.
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