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The Fourth Circuit's Opinion in the Abrego García Case
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April20, 2025 The latest court opinion in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, the El Salvador national who had an immigration order against deporting him back home, but got flown from the United States and put in the CECOT prison anyway, is one I’d encourage more people to read. This didn’t seem legally wrong to me, but fits nicely into a long pattern of federal courts avoiding direct conflict with other branches of government by finding narrow, technical ways to decide cases with much broader implications. As for the people, can you think of a group commanding less public sympathy right now than hundreds of Central American immigrants, tarred as violent foreign gang members, forcefully made to look all the same, crammed into a four-story cage, and stood up, shirtless, as backdrops for photo ops?
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