From Fox News (via Fox 5 DC),
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will now be deported to the small African nation of Eswatini, according to a new email from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained by FOX News.
You will recall that Eswatini is the new name (since 2018) of an enclave within the footprint of South Africa.
I had thought that the Salvadoran Abrego doesn’t want to return home, preferring instead a cushier exile in Costa Rica. The U.S. Government had offered Uganda. Fox News reports,
Abrego Garcia was supposed to be deported to Uganda last month but his legal team stated that he feared persecution there, as well as 21 other countries.
Frankly, I’m not sure why he gets to decide. Bill Melugin of Fox News posted on Twitter (X) the list of nations he rejected. Costa Rica appears on Abrego’s reject list.
I admit that I have never visited a single nation on this list. But what did Belize ever do to him, other than speak English, as does Uganda.
Meanwhile, from The Hill newspaper,
Judge blocks Noem from revoking temporary protections for Venezuelans, Haitians.
Once again,
A federal judge on Friday blocked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from ending temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians.
I don’t know what the word “temporary” means, but we need a word in English that means a condition that exists for a limited, finite duration.
You already knew,
Chen is an appointee of former President Obama who serves in San Francisco.
You have to read to the bottom of The Hill piece to discover that Judge Chen has already lost on this issue at the Supreme Court.
