Albany Rally for Due Process and the Rule of Law

A federal judge on Wednesday again directed the Trump administration to provide information about its efforts so far, if any, to comply with her order to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.

Garcia was grabbed by federal authorities as part of their effort to deport members of the M-13 gang. But news media have found that most of the men deported have no criminal record or clear connection to M-13. In Garcia’s case, his deportation violated a U.S. immigration judge’s order in 2019 that protected him from being sent to El Salvador due to his likely facing persecution by local Salvadoran gangs that had previously terrorized him. He fled to the U.S. at 16 and lived in Maryland for about 14 years, working construction, getting married and raising three kids.

Trump has been increasingly clear that he intends to violate both the law and Constitution,.He has dismissed the constitutional guarantee of due process as a waste of time., even though he used due process to delay his own myriad criminal trials. In recent days Trump has deported a number of children who are American citizens.

marched from the federal courthouse in Albany to the federal O’Brien building to show their support for due process and the rule of law. We hear from organizer Matt Brockbank, followed by a statement written by Senator Pat Fahy. We then hear from Emily Marynczak, Martha Younger, Joe Seeman, Susan DuBois, Wendy Dwuer, and Terry Keehl.