Sen. John Kennedy Calls Abrego Garcia’s Deportation A ‘Screwup’ | EUROtoday

Republican Sen. John Neely Kennedy (La.) admitted that the Trump administration had made a mistake by wrongfully deporting a Maryland man to El Salvador final month.

The politician had plenty of excuses for why Kilmar Abrego Garcia didn’t deserve to return house, however he did inform NBC News’ Kristen Welker that the entire state of affairs was “a screwup” throughout Sunday’s episode of “Meet the Press.”

While Kennedy had an entire checklist of explanation why Abrego Garcia is “never coming back to the United States,” the senator stated his expulsion to El Salvador was an error, albeit a one-off.

“Look, this was a screwup, in my opinion,” he stated.

“The administration won’t admit it, but this was a screwup,” Kennedy continued. “Mr. Garcia was not supposed to be sent to El Salvador. He was sent to El Salvador.”

But the Southern senator continued to defend the Trump administration, telling Welker that Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation didn’t present the president is intent on flouting the rule of regulation.

“The Democrats say, ‘Look, you know, we told you, Trump is a threat to democracy. This is going to happen every other Thursday afternoon.’ I don’t see any pattern here,” he stated. “I mean, you know, some day pigs may fly, but I doubt it.”

After concurrently conceding to the “screwup” and justifying the Trump administration’s actions, Sen. Kennedy then claimed that the federal government would finally heed a unanimous Supreme Court determination ordering it to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.

“I don’t believe that President Trump will defy a federal judge’s order,” Kennedy later added. “If he does, I’ll call him out on it.”

“I love the rule of law. I love it like the devil loves sin,” the famously folksy Kennedy continued, including, “I think if we start not following federal judicial orders, we undermine the system entirely.”

The Trump administration has rationalized its failure to behave with a novel interpretation of the Supreme Courts’ ruling, arguing that solely El Salvador has the facility to launch Abrego Garcia and that “facilitating” his return would solely imply offering an airplane to get him again to the United States.