If it happened to me, I might call the county bar association lawyer referral service asking for an appointment with an immigration attorney.
The fee for an initial consultation is low and likely can be waived if you are in considerable poverty.
While the rule of law in my country isn’t what it was last year, I think citizens who do what their lawyer says will almost all be OK.
P.S. Anyone this happens to totally needs an immigration attorney. Period. I only used the word “might” above because I have other people who I could call for a referral.
Indeed, I would assume the local authorities could throw him directly into the same jail for “supporting terrorism” or some shit. I don’t foresee a scenario where he goes down there to get Garcia out and actually manages to succeed. Not to say that I don’t think he should try, just to say that I hope he’s got his affairs in order before he proceeds because we already know that if he ends up in jail while he’s down there, no one from the US is going to help him.
And the officials that sent the order will wait patiently while you wait for, and possibly get, your appointment, and of course there will be no backlog because immigration atttorneys are both available and abundant.
My second call – if it wasn’t my first – would be to the nearest news outlet – TV or print – with significant reach and/or something close to a household name.
It’s a little like teaching a kid to scream “STRANGER!!!” if somebody is causing them to feel inappropriately uncomfortable, or “FIRE!!!” as an adult – theoretically, two utterances that are less likely to be ignored by those in earshot.
We in the U.S. live under a changing hybrid regime. By the time any of us would possibly get the email, the range of advisable actions may be different.
Even if he is returned to the U.S., the Trump administration will not let him out on bail or similar. They will either do a regular deportation, or jail him here under bad conditions. Consider:
A good similarity is that the injustice is so great than a few of those who usually make excuses now see how indefensible this is. From the National Review:
The other thing is that they’re smearing Kilmar Abrego Garcia; to hear members of the Administration talk, you’d think he was the worst sort of gangster and not a victim of those gangs. I’m sure plenty of people have bought into this narrative.
Where are the nation’s Christian leaders? The ones who embraced trump? “Truly I say to you, *to the extent that you did it to one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did it to Me”.
That’s… actually an insult to both cafeterias and most of the people I’ve been calling “cafeteria Christians” all these years, you know, the people who only attend Christmas and Easter, reject various birth control restrictions, etc.
“The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building,” he recalled. "One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'" …
He has no criminal record, neither in Venezuela nor the U.S, per the outlet, and does not have any tattoos…
“Merwil was detained for hanging out with friends and was at the wrong place at the wrong time. ICE was not looking for him, nor is there any evidence whatsoever that Merwil was in any gang,”
Note that the innocent kid was from Venezuela. So naturally Trump’s Protection Squadron sent him to El Salvador.
Not that interesting, as when it happens, I don’t expect much if any pushback. He’s gradually acclimating people so they will accept it when it happens.
(Though perhaps the best way to fight his suggestion that violent US citizen criminals be deported to El Salvador prison is to argue against exporting jobs in the prison-industrial complex. Why pay El Salvador when we have prison guards in the United States willing and able to house and abuse prisoners?)
