Noem says if Abrego Garcia is sent back to U.S. we'd "deport him again"

Kristi Noem defends U.S. migration tactics

Kristi Noem says if Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to U.S. we'd "immediately deport him again" 07:51

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a CBS News interrogation that the Trump medication is focused connected "going aft the worst of the worst and doing it the close way," arsenic questions are raised astir the vetting process for migrants deported to a maximum information situation successful El Salvador.

The Trump medication has sent hundreds of migrants accused of belonging to Venezuelan and Salvadoran gangs to the Salvadoran mega-prison, citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a instrumentality that allows deportations erstwhile the U.S. is facing an invasion. Documents reviewed by CBS News amusement galore of them had nary transgression records. 

Several judges person pushed back on the deportations, and the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month immoderate migrants who are removed nether the Alien Enemies Act indispensable get a accidental to inquire courts to reappraisal their cases.

One country wherever the authorities has admitted an mistake is successful the lawsuit of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland antheral who was sent to a prison successful El Salvador — the state he'd near much than a decennary ago. An migration justice antecedently ruled it was unsafe for him to instrumentality there. His household denies the government's assertion that helium is simply a subordinate of a gang, and the Supreme Court said the medication needs to facilitate his instrumentality and grip the lawsuit properly. 

When asked what she had done to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return, she said she is pursuing the president's absorption on with that of "his ineligible scholars and attorneys." 

"[Abrego Garcia] is not nether our control. He is an El Salvador citizen. He is location determination successful his country. If helium were to beryllium brought backmost to the United States of America, we would instantly deport him again," Noem said.

The Trump medication has argued successful the past it's up to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to determine whether to nonstop Abrego Garcia back, though Bukele has claimed helium doesn't "have the power" to instrumentality him. 

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis — who initially ordered the authorities to facilitate Abrego Garcia's instrumentality — has accused the administration of making "no meaningful effort to comply" with her demands for much accusation connected the case.

"President Trump and his medication has adhered to the tribunal and respects the tribunal and its decisions," Noem said. "This idiosyncratic is not nether the United States of America's jurisdiction and helium is not 1 of our citizens. He is location successful his location country. And that's up to that state to determine what to do." 

Despite the authorities admitting a mistake with Abrego Garcia, Noem maintains the medication spends "hours and hours" gathering cases against alleged pack members up of their deportations.

"Obviously, we're relying connected the expertise of our investigators, our teams, double-checking, triple-checking, going done the paperwork, making definite that we person done everything perfectly correctly," Noem said erstwhile asked astir the veracity of the administration's claims against those who person been deported without owed process. 

Camilo Montoya Galvez contributed reporting. 

Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.

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