Trump says Department of Justice made decision to bring back Abrego Garcia

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

June 7, 2025 3:20 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago


June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday it was the Department of Justice, not him, that made the decision to bring back to the U.S. a man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was flown back to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants within the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday. His return marked an inflection point in a case seized on by critics of Trump's immigration crackdown as a sign that his administration was disregarding civil liberties in its push to step up deportations of migrants.

"Well, that wasn't my decision. The Department of Justice decided to do it that way, and that's fine," Trump told NBC News in an interview when asked about Abrego Garcia's return. Trump added that he had not spoken to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele about the move.

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran whose wife and young child in Maryland are U.S. citizens, appeared in federal court in Nashville on Friday evening. His arraignment was set for June 13, when he will enter a plea, according to local media reports. Until then, he will remain in federal custody.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-department-justice-made-decision-bring-back-abrego-garcia-2025-06-07/

[Klarkashton]

1. As if those bootlickers do anything on their own.

We know how trump runs that place, just like he runs his business, nobody does anything without approval.

When it always turns to shit he blames everybody else.

This is a nightmare.

[Grokenstein]

2. The trump Family Circus is back in reprints.

"Who made this decision?"
"Not Me! Ida Know!"

[WestMichRad]

3. BS

Sort of:
“Find a way to get this out of the news.”

The phony baloney charges are the best these DOJ clowns could come up with.

[Irish_Dem]

4. A Trump Ho only does what Trump orders and pays them to do.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. The same DOJ who told the courts they couldn't bring him back?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. And not only that

but repeated it multiple times AND then doubled down on the "he's not coming back".


El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported (April 14, 2025, 1:16 PM)

Bondi says mistakenly deported man ‘not coming back to our country’ ( 04/16/25 10:22 AM ET)

Trump White House Openly Mocks Maryland Senator for Meeting With Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘He’s NOT Coming Back’ (April 18, 2025 @ 10:39 AM)

And then -

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Never Coming Back. Then He Did.

If we had "real" media, they would pound on this day after day after day.

[republianmushroom]

7. Seems like there was one hell of a lot of "LYING"

from this administration about not being able to return Mr. Garcia.

[bfoxmatt]

8. What about the others?

Should they bring back every single person they sent off without due process?

[bfoxmatt]

9. What I meant to say is...

Shouldn't they bring back every single person they sent off without due process? And what about all the ones being held now in this country? The best advice I've seen for protesting: If violence starts, everyone should just sit down and be quiet, then everyone can see who is causing the violence. Probably some of Dump's cronies!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Different ones have their own lawyers who are handling cases

and judges have ordered that they be returned. However not all of the cases are being reported because the media would rather focus on P-Diddy or Taylor Swift or Beyonce's "wardrobe malfunction" and other "entertainment" stuff.

[llmart]

10. Still reeling from the moniker "TACO", hey Donnie Thin Skin???

He doesn't want to be seen as having backed down once again.

[orangecrush]

12. Sounds like bullshit

Wonder what the court threatened him with.

[William769]

13. Who cares who made the decision

He's back home. That's what matters.

[reACTIONary]

14. Sure. And Vance is in charge of the tariffs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Abrego Garcia's lawyers argue Maryland case is not over until government is 'held accountable'

Bondi and the DOJ are still subject to sanctions and other remedies. This case should not be dismissed without sanctions

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers argue Maryland case is not over until government is ‘held accountable’

— IL Valley Connected (@ilvalleyconnected.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T16:35:08.882Z

https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-lawyers-argue-maryland-case-government-held/story?id=122652258&cid=social_twitter_abcnp

To characterize the Trump administration as "having complied" with a federal judge's order to facilitate the return of mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "pure farce," his attorneys said in a court filing.

The filing, on Sunday, came two days after Abrego Garcia was brought back to the U.S. from his native El Salvador to face criminal charges in Tennessee, following a series of court battles in which the Trump administration repeatedly said it was unable to bring him back.

In April, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States after he was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- based on the Trump administration's claimed that he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which his wife and attorneys deny......

In Sunday's filing, Abrego Garcia's attorneys said Maryland case it not over until the government is "held accountable" for "its blatant, willful, and persistent violations of court orders at excruciating cost to Abrego Garcia and his family." They argued that, despite his return, the case is "not moot" because the court continues to have a role "to ensure that [Abrego Garcia's] case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

The lawyers said the Trump administration "has acted not just in contempt of multiple court orders but with open defiance towards its coequal branch of government, the judiciary."