As the Department of Homeland Security continues to seek the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the agency said Friday it had identified a new country of removal that has agreed to accept the wrongly deported Salvador native: the West African nation of Liberia.
In a court notice filed Friday, Department of Justice attorneys said DHS has received “diplomatic assurances regarding the treatment of third-country individuals removed to Liberia from the United States and are making the final necessary arrangements for [Abrego Garcia’s] removal.”
According to the notice, DHS expects “to be able to effectuate removal as soon as October 31.”
Why are they so desperate to exile this dude?
Because above all else it is necessary that the regime be all powerful and undefeatedable. There is nothing more unacceptable to fascists than defeat. This isn’t about justice and it never was. It’s about their undeniable right to exert their will over the people they deem lesser.
Because he’s become a symbol, one representing their failure to keep him in El Salvador. If he isn’t deported, then there is hope for everyone else.
Same reason Noem keeps getting cosmetic surgery: to save face.