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Immigration agents are the "principal" deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview.

If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee's rights to due process are limited.
Not so fast, the Supreme Court said late Monday. The court signaled that detainees designated as "enemies" of the U.S. could be deported, but should have some way to challenge their removal.

Homan's comments to Axios came on a day when the Supreme Court began to sort out how far President Trump can go in his aggressive push to deport immigrants the administration sees as threats to the U.S.

In a separate decision, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a lower court's order that the U.S. return a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the administration admits was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

Homan said ICE conducts "deep dive" investigations into detainees being considered for removal, looking at their social media posts, criminal records, immigration records and information from confidential informants and surveillance.

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El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their deportation.

“We raise our hands and say, ‘Look, this guy,’” the country’s Security and Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro said in an exclusive interview with CNN. Asked if that meant the country specified which individuals it wanted deported, he said, “Yes … it’s not random.”

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MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was earning $100,000 a year in order to smuggle people around the United States, according to witnesses who have been cooperating with the federal government on Abrego Garcia's human smuggling case.

The New York Post reported that the witnesses, as well as co-conspirators who have been involved with the federal government on the case, have said Abrego Garcia would make around $1,500 for each smuggling trip he took, including the transportation of minors around the US. This reportedly equated to over $100,000 per year for Abrego Garcia.

The case against the gang member was launched after the Department of Justice had Abrego Garcia returned to the United States in order to carry out the human smuggling case against him.

"On May 21, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in violation of Title 8, USC, 1324," Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the time.

According to the case witnesses, smugglers would charge $8,000 for those migrating to the United States, Abrego Garcia would then pick them up in Texas and deliver them across the US, Homeland Security Investigations special agent Peter Joseph has testified.

A co-conspirator in the case has corroborated the findings, who said that $1,000 payments were made by human traffickers to the drivers. The co-conspirator also said that around a third of all customers in the smuggling operation were gang members.

The human smuggling charges against Garcia stem from 2022, when Abrego Garcia was stopped by police in Tennessee while he had nine people in his van. $1,400 cash was found in an envelope with Abrego Garcia at the time, and police suspected Garcia was engaged in smuggling.

Abrego Garcia, who has been painted as a victim of unfair deportations by left-wing media and politicians, was deported to El Salvador earlier this year before being returned to face the smuggling charges. His lawyers have called the smuggling allegations “preposterous.”

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