Six young children at a Lubbock, Texas, day care center have tested positive for measles -- a dreaded scenario with the potential to accelerate an already out-of-control outbreak that has spread to at least two other states. On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services said the toll rose to 481 confirmed cases, a 14% jump over last week.
Going back to the topic of this thread...
The important, imo, issue of Due Process.
(and I do not capitalize those words lightly.)
... A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to return home Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to a supermax prison in El Salvador. ...
Then, there's this ...
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison (April 2, 2025)
www.cnn.com
... The administration argued that it cannot bring back Abrego Garcia because he's in Salvadoran custody and knocked down concerns that he's likely to be tortured or killed at CECOT. ...
OK, another view ...
Judge orders return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
www.cbsnews.com
... A federal judge ruled Friday that a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador must be returned to the U.S. by Monday, April 7.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a supermax prison on March 15, despite a protection order granted in 2019 that should have kept him from being sent to El Salvador. He filed a lawsuit against several federal officials demanding to be returned to the U.S.
"Thank you to everyone that has helped us and supported us in fighting this," Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer, told a crowd outside of the courthouse following the ruling, a statement from the advocacy organization CASA said.
"We will continue fighting this. The first thing I am going to do when I see him is give him a big hug," she said.
ICE officials blamed an "administrative error" and an "oversight" for Abrego Garcia's deportation, but did not take action to rectify the mistake. ...
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