Trump Is Trying to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia Again. It’s Completely Vindictive.

Sooner or later, assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Kafka is going to have to call a press conference on all this business. From CNN:

“[Kilmar] Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by ICE this morning,” attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg told a crowd outside an ICE facility in Baltimore, where he was ordered to report after being released from custody pending a trial on federal charges.

They can’t give it up. It’s maniacal with these people. They screwed up in the first place, sending an innocent citizen to a hellhole in El Salvador. They brought him back to face some papier-mâché criminal charges in Tennessee, warning that, if he were released from custody, ICE would detain him at the first opportunity, which came on Monday, after Garcia addressed a rally of his supporters at the ICE facility in Baltimore.

By the way, if you want the clearest explanation of the administration’s crazed pursuit of this one guy, you should read the defense’s motion to dismiss the charges in Tennessee on the grounds of vindictive prosecution. The only way this could’ve been tougher is if it had been tied around a brick and thrown through the courthouse window:

The unprecedented public pronouncements attacking Mr. Abrego for his successful exercise of constitutional rights by senior cabinet members, leaders of the DOJ, and even the President of the United States, make this the rare case where actual vindictiveness is clear from the record. Mr. Reuveni’s disclosures and evidence of the government’s hunt for unsubstantiated allegations of gang affiliation—which this Court has called “fanciful”—confirm that the government’s motive has been to paint Mr. Abrego as a criminal in order to punish him for challenging his removal, to avoid the embarrassment of accepting responsibility for its unlawful conduct, and to shift public opinion around Mr. Abrego’s removal, including “mounting concerns” with the government’s compliance with court orders.

As were they saying, back with CNN:

“As he was leaving the jail in Tennessee on Friday, he’d been given a notice requiring him to check in at 8 a.m. this morning. The notice stated that the reason was ‘interview.’ Clearly that was false,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. “The only reason that they’ve chosen to take him into detention is to punish him,” he added. Before reporting to the facility, Abrego Garcia also thanked his supporters. “Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Abrego Garcia said in Spanish. “Promise me that you will continue to pray, continue to fight, resist and love, not just for me, but for everybody.” Trump administration officials have repeatedly said he would be detained if released from criminal custody in a case brought against him in Tennessee earlier this year.

True to form, the administration suggested after detaining Garcia (again) that he could be sent to ... Uganda.

Lydia Walther-Rodriguez, the chief of organizing and leadership at CASA, the group behind the rally, which involved members of his family, immigration activists, community leaders and elected officials argued that Abrego Garcia is being made a “martyr for having the courage to stand up to this administration’s illegal deportation practices.” “They’re throwing the entire federal apparatus at one father of three to prove that no one should dare challenge their authority,” she continued in statement.

This is true, but it overlooks another important reason. The administration, which is run by a stable genius incapable of error, fcked up royally in its signature atrocity and the country knows it and, if it ever gets to court, Abrego Garcia is going to own whatever’s left of the District of Columbia. Which undoubtedly will be Joe Biden’s fault.