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‘Lawless and insane’: Trump admin readies for fight after judges block Abrego Garcia removal for now
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A trio of judges slowed the Trump administration’s effort Wednesday to immediately deport Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia for a second time, in a series of back-to-back court orders that were praised by Abrego’s attorneys — but had Trump officials posturing for a fight.
The orders came in a span of 90 minutes from the U.S. districts of Tennessee and Maryland and halted, for now, the Trump administration’s stated plans to have Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest Abrego Garcia and immediately begin removal proceedings to deport him to a third country, such as Mexico or South Sudan. Justice Department officials acknowledged that plan in court earlier this month, telling a federal judge in Maryland that the handoff from U.S. marshals to ICE officials would likely take place outside the federal prison where Abrego Garcia is currently being held.
Those fears were bolstered further after senior Trump administration officials took to social media Wednesday to rail against the string of court rulings. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin vowed on X Wednesday that Abrego Garcia «will never walk America’s streets again.»
«The fact this unhinged judge is trying to tell ICE they can’t arrest an MS-13 gang member, indicted by a grand jury for human trafficking, and subject to immigration arrest under federal law is LAWLESS AND INSANE,» she said.
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by Pam Bondi, speaks before Bondi is sworn in as U.S. Attorney General in the Oval Office at the White House. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The remarks prompted fresh concerns from immigration advocates, as well as lawyers for Abrego Garcia and his family.
«We have heightened, ongoing concerns about the Trump administration’s compliance with any and all those involved» in the case, Chris Newman, an attorney who represents Abrego Garcia’s family, told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday after the orders.
His concerns came despite the string of near-term victories for Abrego Garcia, aimed at affording him due process and access to counsel ahead of his removal.
In Nashville, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw on Wednesday ordered Abrego Garcia’s release from criminal custody pending trial, writing in a 37-page ruling that the federal government «fails to provide any evidence that there is something in Abrego’s history, or his exhibited characteristics, that warrants detention.»
He also poured cold water on the dozens of allegations made by Trump officials, including by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Nashville last week, that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member.
«Based on the record before it, for the court to find that Abrego is member of or in affiliation with MS13, it would have to make so many inferences from the government’s proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful,» he said.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center on March 26, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes, tasked with implementing that order, stayed Abrego Garcia’s release from criminal detention for 30 days, a request made by his attorneys earlier this week.
Two minutes after Judge Crenshaw’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, the judge overseeing his civil case in Maryland, issued an emergency order blocking the administration from immediately taking Abrego Garcia into ICE custody, citing concerns he would otherwise be removed immediately and without due process.
She also ordered that Abrego Garcia be sent to the ICE Order of Supervision at the Baltimore Field Office, and that the Trump administration notify Abrego Garcia and his counsel of any plans to remove him to a third country 72 hours in advance, to ensure access to counsel and to challenge the country of removal.
Lawyers for Abrego Garcia praised the court orders Wednesday, though they stressed there is a long road ahead — and one that remains fraught with uncertainty.
«These rulings are a powerful rebuke of the government’s lawless conduct and a critical safeguard for Kilmar’s due process rights,» Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia’s attorneys, said Wednesday.
However, Abrego Garcia’s case has been the center of a monthslong legal maelstrom and is one that critics argue has allowed the Trump administration to test its mettle on immigration enforcement and its ability to slow-walk or evade compliance with federal courts.
Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, to protest the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador in March in what administration officials said was an administrative error. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
Whether the administration will appeal the orders Wednesday, or otherwise honor them, remains to be seen.
The Supreme Court has in recent months sided with the Trump administration on a number of key court cases, as well as a flurry of emergency orders, suggesting they could move for emergency intervention at that level.
Though justices on the high court ordered unanimously that the Trump administration facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. earlier from El Salvador this year, it’s unclear whether they would intervene at this point to head off the administration’s planned removal. Any challenge to the Tennessee orders, including the 30-day stay, would also be heard by the conservative-majority U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which could block the lower court orders from taking force.
Others noted the Trump administration’s posture in recent immigration cases, including in the wake of their removal of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison earlier this year.
Critics argue the Trump administration has been slow, or downright recalcitrant, to comply with court orders — and their actions prompted two judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland to threaten potential contempt proceedings earlier this year. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s April ruling, which found there was probable cause to hold the administration in contempt for violating his order blocking them from using a wartime law to deport migrants to CECOT, was stayed by a federal appeals court.
On the other hand, Trump officials have railed against the «activist» judges, who they argue have blocked their agenda and overstepped their court powers.
Lawyers for Abrego Garcia and his family say they are clear-eyed about the administration and expected attempts to challenge the orders, even while the details of the efforts remain unclear.
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«It’s now a matter of public record that their posture since the beginning is to say, ‘F— you’ to the courts,» Newman, the lawyer for Abrego Garcia’s family, said in an interview.
«So, to say that we are being vigilant about potential bad faith efforts by the Trump administration would be an understatement,» he said.
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Los Angeles Mayor Bass says ‘hell yeah’ she regrets Ghana trip after wildfires ravaged city
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continued to express regret for her controversial Ghana trip ahead of the devastating fires earlier this year in a recent interview with Vice News.
«I was asked, ‘Do I regret going?’ Hell yeah. I mean, let me just do a comparison. If you are out of town and your kid or a member of your family gets sick or hurt, it doesn’t matter where you were or why you were there. You feel horrible,» Bass said in an interview with Vice News earlier this month.
«I’m really not trying to give excuses, but there was no way in the world I knew that the city was in danger when I left,» she later added. «Absolutely no way. And if you think about it through, if you take a step back, and because I did ask the chief when I came back, you know, like ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ and basically the response was ‘Because we have Santa Anas all the time and nobody expected hurricane-force winds.’»
The mayor faced intense scrutiny for the presidential delegation’s visit to Africa even though there were warnings of the fire ahead of time. The Los Angeles Times reported that her team was aware of the fire risk before her trip.
She ended up returning the day after the fires began ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods, like the Pacific Palisades, where thousands of buildings were destroyed.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass addressed her regret over her Ghana trip during the LA fires. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
«Well, I mean to be with honest with you. Well, I didn’t get briefed. That’s true. But I think that, again, people did not anticipate the historic wind. And it wasn’t just LA. It was the county too.»
«What typically happens is that if there’s going to be a big weather event, there are these briefings that happen and, uh, it’s either initiated by the fire department or the emergency department,» she said. «I was used to the fire chief calling me and telling me, you know, this is getting ready to happen. Come over. I need to brief you and all, you know, everything goes into motion. That didn’t happen in the county, meaning LA and LA County.»
On her flight back, she said she was on the phone almost the entire 12-hour flight back to the U.S. from Ghana.
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The aftermath of the fire in Pacific Palisades and along the Pacific Coast Highway. Officials said that at least 10 people were killed in all the Los Angeles fires, and 5,300 structures were destroyed in the Palisades fire. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
«Well, they’re telling me what’s happening in the fire. We were preparing the emergency declaration. They were talking to the mayor, the council president who serves as acting mayor while I’m gone. I don’t remember if I talked to him or not then, but because there were just a lot of phone calls. Sometimes a lot of people. I think I even did a news interview, but all of that was while I was on the way home,» she said, noting that she had phone access on the plane because it was a military plane, and she did not realize that the Sky News, who she went viral for not answering his questions, was even on the flight.
Bass ousted Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley from her position in February, and Crowley unsuccessfully appealed her removal.
«Our firefighters support Chief Crowley because she stood up for the men and women of our department,» United Firefighters of Los Angeles City posted to X at the time.
In the interview, Bass claimed there were «lies told» about the budget and fire engines.
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Pali High School rests across the street from homes destroyed in the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
«Yes, there were broken fire engines. We find out later that those fire engines were there broken because they’re used for spare parts. But there were 40 fire engines that were idle because they didn’t have the staff that [Crowley] sent home. And the budget cut and I don’t I don’t know the reasons for it, and then the budget cut that never happened,» she added.
«Yes,» Crowley notably responded in an interview at the time of the fires when asked if city leadership «failed» her when it came to resources.
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«What we did when we did the budget was we put money aside for fire because we were in labor negotiations. If the budget was signed before then, but when the labor negotiations were done, we put it back in the budget. Which is a common thing. We’re doing that right now,» Bass said.
When asked about the after-action report for the fire, Bass said she would ‘look and see, but they should be about finished now.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Bass’ office and Crowley. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Los Angeles Fire Department, but they did not immediately comment.
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Trump shrugs off France’s recognition of Palestine as Rubio, prominent Republicans blast move
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President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state — a notably gentler response than the sharp condemnation from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top Republicans, who blasted the move a day earlier.
«What he says doesn’t matter,» Trump told reporters at the White House. «He’s a very good guy. I like him, but that statement doesn’t carry weight.»
Macron took to X on Thursday to announce his intention for France to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly next September.
Macron took to X on Thursday to announce France’s formal recognition of the Palestinian State at the United Nations General Assembly in September. (TERESA SUAREZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Macron cited the need for an «immediate ceasefire» as well as the release of all hostages and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza in his reasoning for France’s move. He also claimed that Hamas must be demilitarized and Gaza rebuilt in a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas he shared on X.
«The French people want peace in the Middle East,» wrote Macron in the letter translated to English on X. «It is up to us, the French, together with the Israelis, the Palestinians, and our European and international partners, to demonstrate that it is possible.»
The letter claimed that «peace is possible» while Macron said he is working to convincing other partners to follow suit.
Recognition of Palestine remains largely symbolic as it does not automatically grant UN membership or full diplomatic ties. Around 150 out of 193 UN member states recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
Trump’s words were much gentler than the strong rebukes by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Thursday.
Rubio called France’s recognition «reckless» and a «slap in the face» to victims of the October 7 Hamas attack shortly after Macron made the announcement on Thursday.
«The United States strongly rejects French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly,» Rubio wrote on X.
«This reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda and sets back peace. It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.»
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. Trump on Friday dismissed Macron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., joined Rubio in sounding off against Macron.
«The French government’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state is curious and disturbing on multiple levels. I am certain this will embolden Hamas and make a ceasefire more difficult,» Graham wrote on X.
Graham also railed against what he said were the shortcomings of such a plan, asking a series of rhetorical questions paired with sarcasm.
«Who’s in charge? What are the borders and boundaries? What is the governance structure? Does Hamas stay involved politically or militarily? Is the West Bank and Gaza part of a single state? Are they allowed to have an army? Does the education system change?» Graham wrote
«Other than these few missing details, it seems like a foolproof plan!»
Cotton also blasted the moves as a «shameful endorsement of terrorists.»
«The best way for this conflict to end is to back Israel in its righteous mission of rescuing the hostages and defeating Hamas,» Cotton said.
Israeli officials responded swiftly and sharply to Macron on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials responded swiftly and sharply.
«We strongly condemn President Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state next to Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7 massacre,» Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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«Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it. Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel.»
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Yariv Levin called the move «a black stain on France’s history and a direct boost to terrorism.»
He added: «The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, and even President Macron’s declaration will not change that.» Levin called for Israel to apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, calling it «a just and historic response to the shameful decision by the President of France.»
El Comando Central de Estados Unidos (Centcom) aseguró este viernes -en su cuenta de X- haber eliminado a “un importante líder” del Estado Islámico (ISIS por sus siglas en inglés), llamado Dhiya Zawba Muslih al Hardani, en un ataque en la mañana del viernes en la ciudad siria de Alepo.
El Centcom, responsable de las operaciones militares estadounidenses en la sensible región de Oriente Medio, no dio muchos detalles de la operación salvo el hecho de que junto al líder también fallecieron sus hijos adultos, Abdallah y Abd al Rahman, que igualmente militaban en el ISIS. Además, se informó que tres mujeres y tres niños que se encontraban con ellos resultaron ilesos.
Según el Centcom, los tres individuos que murieron en el operativo constituían una amenaza “tanto para las fuerzas estadounidenses, como para el nuevo gobierno sirio”.
No queda claro si la operación fue coordinada con el gobierno de Damasco o si fue decidida y ejecutada unilateralmente por Estados Unidos, que se reserva el derecho de actuación en el territorio sirio, área que el gobierno provisional de Ahmed Al Sharaa no consigue controlar en su totalidad.
El pasado abril, el Centcom anunció que retiraba de Siria a unos mil soldados, ante la nueva realidad que supone un gobierno aceptado por la comunidad internacional, pero mantendrá en el país a otros tantos soldados con el objetivo de “degradar la capacidad de atracción del EI y su operatividad regional y global”.
“Continuaremos persiguiendo sin descanso a los terroristas de ISIS dondequiera que estén. Los terroristas de ISIS no están seguros ni donde duermen, ni donde operan, ni donde se esconden. Junto a nuestros socios y aliados, el Comando Central de Estados Unidos está comprometido con la derrota duradera de los terroristas de ISIS que amenazan la región, a nuestros aliados y a nuestro país”, afirmó el general Michael Erik Kurilla, comandante del Comando Central de Estados Unidos tras la operación militar que tuvo lugar en la madrugada de hoy en al Bab, provincia de Alepo, en Siria.
Según las autoridades estadounidenses, una amenaza directa tanto para las fuerzas de Estados Unidos y la Coalición Internacional como para el nuevo gobierno sirio. CENTCOM detalló que la célula familiar mantenía actividades que ponían en riesgo la estabilidad regional y la seguridad de los aliados occidentales.
“Estos individuos de ISIS representaban una amenaza para las fuerzas estadounidenses y de la Coalición, así como para el nuevo Gobierno sirio”, señaló el comunicado oficial difundido por el organismo militar.
La incursión, que se desarrolló en las primeras horas del día, fue planificada con el objetivo de neutralizar a los líderes de la célula yihadista sin causar daños colaterales a la población civil.
De acuerdo con la información proporcionada por CENTCOM, en el lugar del operativo también se encontraban tres mujeres y tres menores de edad, quienes resultaron ilesos. La protección de los no combatientes fue, según la versión oficial, una prioridad durante la ejecución de la misión.
“Tres mujeres y tres niños también estaban en el objetivo y no resultaron heridos”, confirmó el parte militar.
La muerte de Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani y de sus hijos adultos representa un golpe significativo para la estructura de mando de ISIS en el norte de Siria. El grupo, que en el pasado llegó a controlar vastos territorios en Siria e Irak, ha visto mermada su capacidad operativa tras años de ofensivas militares lideradas por la Coalición Internacional.
Sin embargo, células dispersas y líderes locales continúan organizando ataques y manteniendo redes de apoyo en zonas rurales y urbanas, lo que obliga a mantener la presión militar y de inteligencia.
El general Michael Erik Kurilla subrayó la determinación de Estados Unidos y sus aliados para impedir el resurgimiento de ISIS en la región.
“Continuaremos persiguiendo sin descanso a los terroristas de ISIS dondequiera que estén”, reiteró el comandante, enfatizando la estrategia de acción preventiva y la cooperación internacional como pilares de la campaña antiterrorista. Esta declaración, recogida por CENTCOM, refleja la postura oficial de la administración estadounidense respecto a la amenaza persistente que representa el grupo yihadista.
(Con información de EFE)
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