Trump defies the Supreme Court
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump's administration must "facilitate" the return of an El Salvadorian national deported to his home country in an "administrative error". Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled to the US as a teenager to escape gang violence and was protected from deportation by an immigration judge in 2019.
He has no criminal conviction. But the Trump administration seems to be ignoring that instruction. Instead, they have labelled him a "terrorist" and gang member - without evidence - and the President has insisted he is powerless to return him. If Donald Trump continues to defy the judges, is America heading for a constitutional crisis?
Jon and Emily speak to Congressman Juan Vargas, who's spent time with Abrego Garcia's family and is leading the efforts to secure his return.
Later, why is federal funding being withdrawn from America's most prestigious university?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:12.7 | Senator Van Hollen seems to be under the very confused impression that this MS-13 terrorist is his constituent. |
| 0:20.5 | He is President Buckele's constituent. He is President Buckele's constituent. |
| 0:24.1 | He is President Buckele's citizen. |
| 0:26.3 | He is President Buckele's resident. |
| 0:28.2 | He is not a Maryland man. |
| 0:29.6 | He is not a Maryland anything. |
| 0:31.2 | He is an illegal alien from El Salvador with a deportation order from the United States. He is not legally even allowed to be in |
| 0:41.1 | our country. And if the entire Democrat Party was to work itself into a state of emotional |
| 0:47.2 | hysteria to demand the return of illegal gang members and terrorists to our shores, then that |
| 0:53.0 | 21% will soon be 15, and then |
| 0:55.4 | it'll be 11, and then all they'll have left is the support of actual confirmed MS-13 members, |
| 0:59.8 | and that will be the entire base of the Democrat Party. |
| 1:02.4 | That is Stephen Miller, Trump's henchman, his right-hand man, his voice on immigration, |
| 1:08.1 | and they are discussing the abduction of a Maryland resident, a father, a man called |
| 1:14.0 | Kilmar-Albrego-Garcia, who was taken on March the 15th to El Salvador without any due process. |
| 1:23.1 | Last week, the Supreme Court decreed that Trump had got this wrong. They ordered the return |
| 1:32.3 | of Abrago Garcia to America. What's going to happen now? |
| 1:37.3 | Because if nothing happens now, then the implication is that the Supreme Court stands for nothing, |
| 1:46.6 | because it means that the president can ignore whatever they decide. |
| 1:52.7 | And that is the very definition of what a constitutional crisis looks like, |
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