from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, August 25th.

You don't need to look any further than Fox News in the Wall Street Journal editorial page

to find questions about whether the

Trump administration is acting in defiance of the law. One of this morning's top stories, if you

haven't seen it yet, is the detention again for deportation again of Kilmar-Abregar-Garcia,

who the administration admitted was wrongly deported to El Salvador

earlier this year, and a series of court rulings, even from the usually Trump-friendly Supreme Court,

resulted in bringing him back. Remember the Garcia-A-Obrigo story? Then they charged him with a crime

to detain him again, something that he allegedly did years ago in Tennessee.

He fleeted not guilty and was recently freed while fighting that case.

He was fighting it on the grounds of selective prosecution to make a point, a political point.

He refused a plea deal, which would have had him serve time in prison

in the United States and then be deported to Costa Rica where he could have apparently gone free.

He turned down that deal to try to prove his innocence, they say.

But this morning, at a required immigration check, they detained

him again with the intent this time to deport him to Uganda. He's from El Salvador, remember?

The take on the Fox News website included this shortly before Kilmar Abra was detained, quote, should ICE immediately arrest Abrago-Garcia,

their actions would likely defy a court order handed down by U.S. District Judge Paula Zinnis

and Obama appointee, which sought to preclude ICE from immediately arresting Abrago Garcia upon return.

Lawyers for the Justice Department vehemently opposed Abrago Garcia's release from custody,

arguing at an evidentiary hearing earlier this year that he was a danger to the community

in describing him as a member of MS-13, a claim that was

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