https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXTv13t0GPw
"Let's get President Trump in front of our committee to answer the questions that are being asked across this country from survivors," said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday...
"Donald Trump and his Department of Justice have now made it clear that they intend to withhold roughly 50% of the Epstein files, while claiming to have fully complied with the law. This is outrageous and incredibly concerning," Garcia said in a statement. "The oversight committee subpoena directs Pam Bondi to release all the files to the committee, while protecting survivors."
He added: "We are demanding the names of Epstein's co-conspirators and the men and pedophiles who abused women and girls. We will begin a thorough review of this latest limited production, but let's be clear: our work and investigation are just getting started."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/democrats-justice-department-epstein-files
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered officials to release the 30-year-old undocumented immigrant and longtime Maryland resident in part to ensure he has a fair immigration process after finding that Justice Department attorneys had "misled" the court at a hearing last month. Government lawyers and an ICE witness alleged officers had to deport him to the African nation of Liberia because Costa Rica had reneged on a deal to offer him refuge.
But the judge, citing reporting by The Washington Post and other media outlets, noted that Costa Rica had "never wavered" in its commitment to accept Abrego. He was released from a Pennsylvania detention facility shortly before 5 p.m., his lawyers said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCAoTD_QfuE
"If true, this surreptitious deal struck by the Trump administration has profound implications for the integrity of the United States justice system and national security," Garcia wrote. "The Committee demands to understand whether U.S. officials facilitated the repatriation of MS-13 leaders to prevent them from cooperating with American prosecutors."
The gang leaders were charged in a pair of cases playing out in federal court on Long Island that U.S. officials have described as "the highest-reaching and most sweeping indictments targeting MS-13 and its command and control structure in U.S. history."
The indictments alleged that many of the accused had been directly involved in negotiating a truce with unnamed members of Bukele's government to tamp down public gang killings in El Salvador to help the president's party win a supermajority in 2021 legislative elections.
In exchange, according to one of the indictments, Salvadoran officials offered the gang leaders cash and other perks, including improved prison conditions, control of territory and a commitment that El Salvador would deny U.S. requests to extradite them.
"In effect," Garcia wrote in his letter, "the Salvadoran government traded criminal impunity for political gain."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/18/bukele-ms13-trump-deal-robert-garcia/
As a key Democrat seeks new details from Fox News, the party appears to be taking "it's time to get tougher and start playing hardball" advice to heart...
New court documents allege physical and psychological torture at Cecot in one of first looks at conditions in prison…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/kilmar-abrego-garcia-tortured-cecot
"The Border Patrol and ICE agents unlawfully restrained and detained Mr. Garcia for more than 24 hours without any valid grounds for interfering with his liberty and freedom of movement and they did so based on legally prohibited grounds," MALDEF said in its claim letter, dated Tuesday. MALDEF said he was released without arraignment or notification of a future court date...
