It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good Monday morning, everyone.

Today, 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-Abrego-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-A-R-Bregos story?

Then they charged him with a crime to detain him against, 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

served 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 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

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