Overview
- U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis kept her injunctions in place on Monday, stopping the administration’s stated plan to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia.
- Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons asked the court on Friday to dissolve those orders, saying Liberia stands ready to accept Abrego Garcia and urging a ruling by April 17.
- The government says Abrego Garcia forfeited the chance to choose Costa Rica in 2019, while he and Costa Rica now say he can go there as a refugee.
- Xinis previously found the administration had not shown that proposed countries would accept him or protect him from being sent back to El Salvador, which a 2019 order bars because of gang threats.
- Coverage reflects sharp divides, with Fox highlighting DHS claims about gang ties that his lawyers deny and Reason questioning the push for Liberia as a diplomatic choice over the agreed Costa Rica option.