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Hey folks, Asha here.

Here's a recording of my latest cafe note.

What's the real quid pro quo with Buckele? As always, please write to us with your thoughts and

questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, I suspect that as a cafe insider reader, you have been following the twists and turns of the legal wrangling between the courts and the Trump administration with regard to the mistaken removal and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrago Garcia, a Maryland father and El Salvadoran, National, whom the government acknowledges was sent to El Salvador

as a result of an administrative error. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling, upholding a lower

court's order that the administration facilitate Abrago Garcia's release from the Center for Terrorism

Confinement, Seacott, where he is currently being held,

as far as we are aware, the government has continued its kabuki dance of making filings that are

pretty much non-responsive to the court's demand for more information about what the government

is actually trying to do to comply with the court's order. Lost in all this,

though, is a more fundamental question. What kind of arrangement could the United States possibly

have with a corrupt third world dictator who has been credibly accused of engaging in rampant

human rights violations in his own country? Well, there are some clues that might

explain why the Trump administration doesn't want anyone to know. So let's start with this agreement.

In its most recent filing, the Trump administration suggests that it can't disclose the details

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