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DOJ lawyer tells judge he doesn't know whereabouts of mistakenly deported Maryland man
The trial judge is piss
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-supreme-court-ruling-judge-sets-hearing-maryland/story?id=120703441
A deputy assistant attorney general told the judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in error, that he does "not have the information" regarding Abrego Garcia's whereabouts.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis began a hearing Friday on Abrego Garcia's deportation by asking the government to answer where Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia is.
"Where is he and under whose authority?" she repeatedly asked.
"I do not have that knowledge, and therefore I cannot relate that knowledge," DOJ attorney Drew Ensign said.
"I'm not asking for state secrets, I'm asking where one man who is wrongly and illegally deported, removed from this country [is]," Xinis said.
"Your Honor, I do not have the information provided to me that I can provide to you," Ensign said again.
The judge decided to go ahead with Friday's hearing after the Trump administration sought to delay the hearing until next week. The Justice Department on Friday morning asked her to reschedule the hearing for Wednesday, April 16, two days after El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is scheduled to meet with the White House -- but the judge, in a filing, kept the hearing date as scheduled.
Xinis, at the start of the hearing, said has three questions for DOJ: The current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia, what steps the Trump administration has taken to facilitate his return, and what additional steps the government will take and when to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis began a hearing Friday on Abrego Garcia's deportation by asking the government to answer where Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia is.
"Where is he and under whose authority?" she repeatedly asked.
"I do not have that knowledge, and therefore I cannot relate that knowledge," DOJ attorney Drew Ensign said.
"I'm not asking for state secrets, I'm asking where one man who is wrongly and illegally deported, removed from this country [is]," Xinis said.
"Your Honor, I do not have the information provided to me that I can provide to you," Ensign said again.
The judge decided to go ahead with Friday's hearing after the Trump administration sought to delay the hearing until next week. The Justice Department on Friday morning asked her to reschedule the hearing for Wednesday, April 16, two days after El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is scheduled to meet with the White House -- but the judge, in a filing, kept the hearing date as scheduled.
Xinis, at the start of the hearing, said has three questions for DOJ: The current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia, what steps the Trump administration has taken to facilitate his return, and what additional steps the government will take and when to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.
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You know, the bleach blond clown. republican lawyers are total shit. And this is what we end up with. A shitfest 
The judge is piss off at the trump DOJ
Breaking: A judge demanded "daily updates" from the Trump administration on whether it’s complying with a court order to return a man who was illegally deported.
— Politico (@politico.com) 2025-04-11T18:46:01.891Z
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GREENBELT, Maryland — An exasperated federal judge commanded the Trump administration Friday to begin providing “daily updates” on whether it is doing anything to comply with her order to return a Maryland man — illegally deported to El Salvador last month — back to the United States.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.....
The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday.
Xinis, an Obama appointee, said that without any information — or even an acknowledgment that the administration had done anything at all — she could only conclude that the administration had “done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
“There’s an easy way to combat that,” she said, “and that’s just to tell me whether you’ve done anything and if so, what.”
Xinis’ new directive requires the daily updates to come from an administration official with “personal knowledge” of efforts to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But Justice Department officials said they may not be prepared to comply with her demands until at least Monday......
Xinis told Ensign that if Trump administration officials were depriving him of information she demanded, then “you don’t have full and effective contact with your clients.”
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.....
The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday.
Xinis, an Obama appointee, said that without any information — or even an acknowledgment that the administration had done anything at all — she could only conclude that the administration had “done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
“There’s an easy way to combat that,” she said, “and that’s just to tell me whether you’ve done anything and if so, what.”
Xinis’ new directive requires the daily updates to come from an administration official with “personal knowledge” of efforts to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But Justice Department officials said they may not be prepared to comply with her demands until at least Monday......
Xinis told Ensign that if Trump administration officials were depriving him of information she demanded, then “you don’t have full and effective contact with your clients.”
