Hi, I'm Dahlia Lithwick. Welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court.

When I saw it, I immediately broke down. The administration maintains the position that this individual who was deported to El Salvador and will not be returning to our country

was a member of the brutal and vicious MS-13 gang.

I've seen news of that prison, and I know they take criminals there, and my husband's not a criminal.

The error that you are referring to was a clerical error.

It was an administrative error. I was scared for his life.

The historian Tim Snyder, writer Adam Surwer, and others describe the terrorism confinement center in El Salvador or Seekot, simply as a gulag. How else can you describe the

Black Sight prison camp that America pays for to which anyone can be disappeared based on a tattoo

or wearing a Chicago Bulls hat? And even if that disappearing happened in error, which according to the U.S. government this past week, can happen, there's nothing to be done about it.

We're going to speak to the lawyer for a man trapped in this anti-constitutional habeas corpus vacuum, this Kafka nightmare, in just a couple of minutes.

After that, Slate Senior writer Mark Joseph Stern is going to

join me to talk about the legality of Donald Trump's disastrous tariffs this week. But first,

and first of all, I want to thank El Salvador and their president for their partnership with

the United States of America to bring our terrorists here

and to incarcerate them and have consequences for the violence that they have perpetuated in our

communities. It was not possible to talk to the men in the background of Secretary of State

for Homeland Security, Christy Noam's propaganda video filmed in El Salvador last week. We couldn't ask

them about the conditions they're enduring

in Seacot or who they are or whether they have access to counsel or if they even know what

they're accused of because these men are voiceless props in the Trump regime's tough guy porn,

set dressings in the new authoritarian aesthetic. We can't speak to the men in that prison camp in El Salvador, but we do now know that one of

these men is Kilmar Armando Abrago Garcia, the Maryland husband of an American citizen,

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