Trump administration disobeying court orders to return wrongly deported husband & father

The Trump administration, in its relentless march toward authoritarianism, has crossed yet another line—not merely defying a federal court order, but ripping a father from his children, a husband from his wife, and a man from the country he calls home.

Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland resident, a husband to a U.S. citizen, and a father to three American children, was illegally deported to El Salvador and thrown into one of the most brutal prisons on Earth—all while the White House smears him as a gang member without evidence and dares the courts to stop them. 

This is not just a legal battle. It is a moral reckoning. 

Judge Paula Xinis, a federal jurist in Maryland, has ordered the Trump administration to disclose its efforts—or lack thereof—to bring Abrego García home.

The response? A cocktail of evasion, lies, and outright contempt. 

Justice Department lawyers, acting more like palace guards than public servants, have stonewalled the court.

Stephen Miller, the evil architect of this administration’s cruelest immigration policies, went on national television to declare—against all evidence, against the Supreme Court’s own findings—that Abrego García was “the right person sent to the right place.”

Never mind that the Solicitor General of the United States had already admitted the deportation was illegal. Never mind that the Supreme Court unanimously rebuked the administration’s lawlessness. 

This is not governance. It is gangsterism. 

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Abrego García’s wife, stood outside courthouses, pleading for the return of the man she loves.

Their three children ask when their father will come home.

These are Americans whose lives have been turned upside down by the government for no good reason, but they are not powerless to fight back.

Meanwhile, the White House spins lies about MS-13, a convenient boogeyman for an administration that has always viewed immigrants as less than human. 

But let us be clear: Kilmar Abrego García is not a gang member.

He is a sheet metal apprentice who fled El Salvador as a teenager, built a life in America, and was granted legal protection from deportation.

His only crime is being brown in Trump’s America. 

The Supreme Court, in a rare moment of unanimity, ruled that the administration must “facilitate” Abrego García’s return.

Then Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, met in the Oval Office and smugly declared they would do no such thing. This is not just defiance—it is a direct assault on the rule of law. 

What does it say about our democracy when a president believes he can ignore judges at will? What does it say about our humanity when we lock a man in a torture chamber abroad and call it justice? 

President John F. Kennedy once said, “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

Martin Luther King Jr. warned that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Today, those words ring with terrifying urgency as one man is languishing in a South American prison, notorious for human rights violations.

If we allow this administration to flout the courts, to destroy families without consequence, to smear innocent men as criminals, then we have surrendered not just to tyranny—but to our own silence. 

When Trump – or the next president – sends thugs to drag off you or someone who you love, don’t expect anyone to help if you’re silent today.

The time for outrage is now. The time for action is now. Kilmar Abrego García must be brought home.

And those who defy justice must be held to account because in the United States, nobody is above the law. 

When this episode is over, and it will end one way or another, there’s a chance that American democracy is going to be different. Trump and his fellow billionaires better hope citizens will not be like those who emerged during the French Revolution because it may be their heads in the guillotine.