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SCOTUS mandates owed process for deportees
President Trump said helium doesn't cognize if everyone successful the U.S., citizens oregon non-citizens, is entitled to owed process — the law bid stated successful some the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendment.
"I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know," Mr. Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker connected "Meet the Press" aft she asked him whether helium agreed that everyone connected U.S. ungraded is entitled to owed process successful the tribunal of law.
When asked by Welker successful the interrogation aired Sunday if helium thinks helium has to uphold the Constitution arsenic president, Mr. Trump besides said, "I don't know."
"I person to respond by saying again, and I person superb lawyers that enactment for me, and they are going to evidently travel what the Supreme Court said," Mr. Trump said.
His comments travel arsenic helium discussed the lawsuit of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the El Salvadoran autochthonal who is joined to a U.S. national and was surviving successful Maryland earlier the Trump administration mistakenly deported him successful March. Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted successful a tribunal filing that the deportation of the Baltimore begetter was an "administrative error" and an "oversight."
Last month, a national justice and the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump medication to facilitate the instrumentality of Abrego Garcia to the U.S., but Abrego Garcia remains successful a detention installation successful Santa Ana, El Salvador, aft spending astir a period astatine the country's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
When asked astir the hold successful returning Abrego Garcia to the U.S. and whether he's defying the Supreme Court, Mr. Trump told NBC that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department had interpreted the court's 9-0 determination differently.
"They're not viewing the determination the mode you said it. They don't presumption it that mode astatine all. They deliberation it's a wholly antithetic decision," Mr. Trump said.
"I person the powerfulness to inquire for him to travel backmost if I'm instructed by the lawyer wide that it's ineligible to bash so," the president added. "But the determination arsenic to whether oregon not helium should travel backmost volition beryllium the caput of El Salvador. He's a precise susceptible man."
President Nayib Bukele has said helium won't instrumentality Abrego Garcia to the U.S. During his sojourn to the White House past month, Bukele referred to Abrego Garcia arsenic a "terrorist," and said, "I don't person the powerfulness to instrumentality him to the United States."
Mr. Trump besides said successful the interrogation that aired Sunday that there's a anticipation that the Department of Justice volition spell backmost to the Supreme Court and inquire the justices to clarify their bid to the medication to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return. The president and the Justice Department person said that Abrego Garcia shouldn't beryllium successful the state due to the fact that of his alleged engagement with MS-13.
The Trump administration, including its "border czar" Tom Homan, claimed that Abrego Garcia's digit tattoos are among "one of many" proofs that he's progressive with the gang.
"He seems surely similar a precise dangerous, precise atrocious person," the president told Welker, referencing the audio released past week by the Department of Homeland Security of Abrego Garcia's woman erstwhile she filed a protective bid against him successful 2020, alleging home violence.
Jennifer Vasquez besides filed different protective bid against him backmost successful 2021 implicit allegations of home violence, according to tribunal records obtained by CBS News. Abrego Garcia has nary transgression grounds and his household says helium was ne'er progressive with a gang.
Since Abrego Garcia's deportation, Vasquez has been outspoken successful support of his return. At a rally extracurricular the White House connected Thursday, she said her hubby "was thrown distant to die."
"My children and I had to ticker Trump and Bukele's medication laughter astatine our pain," Vasquez said. "The highest tribunal ruled that Kilmar should beryllium returned home. So wherefore are they inactive waiting? Enough is enough."
Kiki Intarasuwan is simply a quality exertion for CBS News & Stations.
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