Is the Worm Turning on Immigration?
Five court rulings that shook up the regime's plans
Kilmar Abrego Garcia might be the most visible example of the Trump regime backing down on immigration, but he wasn’t the first! In the past several days, we have seen five major, important setbacks for the Trump regime’s efforts and PR surrounding immigration. Including one case in particular, of a waitress known as ‘Carol,’ that I must say gave me hope for the humanity of our fellow Americans.
We’ll talk more about the Abrego Garcia’s case shortly, but I do want to point out why Trump picked a Friday afternoon in June. The timing is a tool he used extensively during the first regime, and continues to use this time - throwing a shiny coin to distract us. Every news outlet had as their first, second, third, fourth and fifth top news stories, coverage of the Trump-Musk break up, and its fallout. Neither looks particularly good, to say the least, which is delightful for the rest of us! Trump did get the media to kinda change the subject, even though Abrego Garcia was returned weeks after his indictment was handed down in Tennessee.
Before we get to the five cases, I want to also highlight a story we covered in Week 30’s list about White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. He and Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem excoriated ICE officials for not living up to Trump’s promises to deport “millions and millions.” Heads went flying at ICE last week too. So that gives us insight that whatever rosy picture they are trying to project to the outside world, inside the Trump regime, Trump is furious with his regime’s underperformance on this key issue.
In the last three days alone, there have been five important cases, starting with ‘O.C.G.,’ the first migrant who was wrongly deported and returned.
The Case of a Guatemalan Man
We covered in Week 29, that a federal judge ordered the Trump regime to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man, identified as O.C.G. in court filings, who the regime deported to Mexico. The judge ordered the Trump regime to "take all immediate steps" to return O.C.G. after he was "placed on a bus and sent to Mexico," a country where he said he was previously held for ransom and raped.