The Limits of Judicial Reach: Executive Power and the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The question before the Court was never whether Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was a sympathetic figure. He is not. A member of the brutal MS-13 gang, Garcia was deported to El Salvador in error, but his profile does not lend itself to the iconography of the American immigration debate. He is not Emma Lazarus's tired, poor, or huddled masses. He is the fa…