In these tweets, Vance works himself up into a frenzy of self-regard and high dudgeon, sneering at “the left” for not engaging his arguments. Yet he blithely ignores actual efforts at engagement with him, and the arguments he does make are embarrassingly weak. The disconnect is cringeworthy.
Call me crazy but if you got two hearings and a valid deportation order then you shouldn’t be in the United States.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 18, 2025Here’s why. The status that Vance refers to here is “withholding of removal,” which a judge granted to the Salvadoran Abrego Garcia in 2019. This prohibited his deportation to El Salvador, but it didn’t preclude removal to a third country. This status is a bit murky: In essence, the government is recognizing that he is living and working here lawfully as long as it isn’t moving to deport him elsewhere.
When Vance claims that Abrego Garcia is validly subject to deportation, he’s effectively admitting that the administration does have those alternative options. Remember, the Supreme Court declared Abrego Garcia’s current removal “illegal.” Trump has the option of moving to deport him in a way that is not illegal. Why not bring him back and do this the lawful way? The question remains unanswered.
All this has just assumed new importance for another reason, due to a new ruling by a conservative judge, J. Harvie Wilkinson. The 4th Circuit appeals court shot down Trump’s efforts to dodge responsibility to return him, and the ruling is getting attention for its scorching rebuke of Trump’s lawlessness.
The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order.
All this has big political implications, too. After Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, generating powerful imagery nationally, Trump adviser Stephen Miller made a big show of claiming this debate favors Trump, because Democrats are becoming the party that “fights for illegal aliens.”
Abrego Garcia fits both those bills. Indeed, this is almost certainly why the administration won’t bring him back: If he were returned, and the administration moved to retry him for deportation, his alleged MS-13 status would be formally litigated again. Trump might actually fail in this effort, shattering impressions of his power to act lawlessly with impunity, which he’s cultivating to spread terror and breed submission. Beyond that, the focus would grow more intense on the life Abrego Garcia has created here as a metal-worker who is married to a U.S. citizen with three children and regularly checked in with law enforcement, as his status required. These are the people majorities don’t want deported.
The only way Trump wins the argument is if he can subsume all these specifics—deporting longtime nonviolent residents, flouting courts, conspiring with fellow dictators to stash people in foreign gulags—under the rubric of fighting “illegal aliens.” But why assume he’s succeeding at that? The more media attention Vance and Trump bring to this case, the less likely that becomes. This is also a reason for Democrats to do more to spotlight particularized horrors. If Democrats don’t engage, they’ll only make it easier for Trump and Miller to recast those specifics as “hey, we’re just keeping out illegals.”
Does Vance really think that outcome would be a more proportional punishment for his transgression of entering the country illegally at the age of 16, as Abrego Garcia did, than removing him more conventionally would be? If so, Vance is morally deranged. If not, he’s knowingly defending the indefensible. If voters can be made to see that this is the true nature of the choice Vance and Trump are making, they’d surely recoil.
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