It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely used wartime law as a centerpiece of his aggressive deportation agenda.
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”
The government detailed a long series of miscommunications between an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Buffalo, which was responsible for monitoring Jordin Melgar-Salmeron’s legal case, and one in Louisiana, where he was being held.
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