‘Taking no action is not facilitation’: Judge orders Trump admin to bring back 2nd ‘wrongfully’ deported man

Main: President Donald Trump, left, waves as he greets El Salvador

Main: President Donald Trump, left, waves as he greets El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele as Bukele arrives at the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta).

The Trump administration breached the terms of a settlement agreement that was supposed to protect a Venezuelan man living in Maryland from being deported, a federal judge says — choosing to instead ship him off “wrongfully” last month to El Salvador — making him the second individual who has been mistakenly removed from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).

The obscure 1798 wartime law, which has been invoked just three times in the past during World War II, has already led to the allegedly wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another protected Maryland man who was also sent to El Salvador on March 15 under the authority of the AEA.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, brought up Abrego Garcia’s case in an order Wednesday that demanded the return of the 20-year-old Venezuelan, identified only as “Cristian.”

Gallagher ordered the U.S. government to “facilitate Cristian’s return to the United States so that he can receive the process he was entitled to under the parties’ binding Settlement Agreement.” She also blocked the government from removing anyone else covered in the prior court order, which stems from a 2019 class action lawsuit, filed by unaccompanied minors who entered the U.S. and applied for asylum, over policies and procedures that were allegedly being adopted at the time by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The applicants wanted to have their asylum applications adjudicated while living in the United States, saying they had been denied continuances and other postponements in the past.

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