Trump admin loses bid to pause order to facilitate return of alleged MS-13 member Kilmer Abrego Garcia: Shall not micromanage the efforts

The Trump administration took another court loss Thursday after a unanimous federal appeals panel refused to pause a Maryland judge’s order that the White House take “all available steps to facilitate” the return of an alleged MS-13 gang member to the US following his deportation to El Salvador.In a biting seven-page ruling, the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals kept US District Judge Paula Xinis’ order that the government help bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia in place while the feds appeal Xinis’ decision, likely to the Supreme Court.“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision,” wrote Chief Judge Harvie Wilkinson, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan.The high court had weighed in on the case April 10, ordering the feds to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return after he was shipped last month to the hellish CECOT prison in his home country of El Salvador, along with 260 other alleged gang members.Abrego Garcia filed suit against the Trump administration on March 24, nine days after he was flown out of the US.Abrego Garcia claimed that an October 2019 immigration court ruling protected him from being sent back to his native country over concerns he could be targeted by the gang Barrio 18, a rival of MS-13.The Trump administration argued that Abrego Garcia illegally entered the US in 2011 and should have been removed in 2019 after two immigration rulings denied him bond, with one citing a report that he was part of MS-13.“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” wrote Wilkinson, who was joined in his ruling by Judge Robert Bruce King, a Bill Clinton appointee, and Judge Stephanie Thacker, a Barack Obama appointee.Even the government proves that Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist and a member of MS-1...