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This is the Cater Daily podcast for Friday, April 18th, 2025. I'm Caleb Brown. The Trump

administration doesn't like to admit mistakes, but here they did. When they sent one particular

man to a

particularly harsh prison in El Salvador without any due process, they now admit that was an error.

The Supreme Court has weighed in. Kato's Ilya Soman provides some analysis. With regard to this man who was removed to Al Salvador, he is Salvadoran, he had status within the United States not to be removed specifically to El Salvador. The Trump administration did it anyway among a large group of people who were sent to El Salvador. Most of them did not have criminal records in the United

States, at least as far as I have heard. What did the Supreme Court say regarding this man's

removal to this, as I've said many times, a particularly unsavory prison in El Salvador.

Yeah. So this is a rare case where even the Trump administration that almost never admits

any mistakes. They admitted they deported dismay an illegally. And, you know, he's in the prison

in El Salvador without having been convicted of any crime, either in the U.S. or in El Salvador, and his lawyers

have gone to court and said, like, you've got to bring this person back. But the Trump administration

says, you know, we can't be required to do that because he's in the custody of a foreign government.

The foreign government is in control and you, the courts, have no jurisdiction over this, despite the fact that the only reason why the Salvadorans have incarcerated him is because

of an agreement with the U.S. Essentially, the Salvadorans are holding him not because they want him or

because they have crimes that they want to charge him with. They're holding him because

the quasi-authoritarian president of

Salvador, Naib Bukui, has made an agreement with the Trump administration to detain and

imprison some of these deportees in exchange for a $6 million payment for the U.S. government.

And this case yesterday went up to the Supreme Court. And what the Supreme Court said is they rejected the president's claim that the courts

have no jurisdiction and that, you know, the president just do whatever he wants when he

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