The American judge says that migrant lawyers can move to hold Trump’s administrator in contempt

Baltimore – – A federal judge of Baltimore paved the way for the potential procedure of outrasts against the Trump administration on Tuesday after he does not comply with an order from the court demanding that he returns a deported Venezuelan migrant from El Salvador to American soil.

The update of the judge of the American district Stephanie Gallagher has capped an extraordinary audience of the court centered on the status and the place of “Cristian”, a 20 -year -old Venezuelan migrant who was expelled to the Salvador de la Salvador Salvador prison in terms of Salvador security, as part of the wave of the wave of the wave of the wave of the wave of the wave of Extraterrestrial of the Trump administration.

Gallagher told Cristian lawyers on Tuesday that the Rafale of recent updates in the case could allow applicants to potentially evolve or a possible procedure for outrage against the Trump administration, although it stressed that it did not judge if the effort would be crowned.

“I’m not disagreeing that you have offered a base under which you could potentially ask for a kind of sanctions or contempt,” against the administration, “said Gallagher. “I certainly do not govern on this subject – or not offering any opinion on the fact that this effort would succeed – but it seems to me that you have proposed a base on which you believe that such a motion could be to come.”

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The demonstrators meet to protest against the expulsion of immigrants in Salvador outside the permanent mission of El Salvador to the United Nations on April 24, 2025, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

She also pointed out that, despite procedural changes to court, this does not mean that they “abandon the ship” in efforts to guarantee Cristian’s return to the United States, although she recognized that the situation on the ground had changed considerably.

Gallagher, a person appointed by Trump, held in April that Cristian’s deportation had violated a settlement agreement that the Ministry of Homeland Security concluded last year with a group of young asylum seekers. Under the 2024 agreement, the DHS agreed not to expel the members of this class until their asylum complaints can be fully judged by an American courtyard.

The audience strongly highlighted the rapidly evolving fact that underlies Cristian’s guard status. A few days earlier, Cristian was expelled from Cecot, in Salvador, in his country of origin, Venezuela.

Gallagher said on Tuesday that the new situation had put the court “in another posture” compared to his position only a week ago.

Cristian lawyers argued Tuesday that his dismissal to Venezuela, of which they had not attentive, should be reasons to continue to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt. Gallagher did not exclude it.

In Gallagher’s decision four months ago, she determined that Cristian’s dismissal was a “breach of contract” due to the conditions of settlement of the DHS 2024 agreement. She then ordered the Trump administration to facilitate her return to the United States

But as Tuesday’s audience, Daniel Lozano-Camargo, the migrant called in “Cristian” courts, is not on the way to the United States from Cecot.

In fact, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice confirmed on Tuesday that it had been expelled from Cecot in its country of origin, Venezuela, with 251 other Venezuelan migrants, that the Trump administration deported from the United States to El Salvador in March under the auspices of an immigration law in time of war only three times before in American history.

Their return to Venezuela was part of an exchange of prisoners made on Friday to obtain the release of 10 Americans detained in this country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the exchange in an article on social networks later in the evening.

The decision to expel 252 Venezuelan nationals sent by the United States to its country of origin has raised profound concerns on the part of immigration defenders.

To date, there is little public information available on the identity of migrants expelled by the Trump administration in Salvador in March. It is not clear if – or how much – the migrants returned to the Cecot prison could have been under the orders of “referral” of a federal judge, which would prevent the United States from expelling them in Venezuela.

Cristian’s lawyer Kevin Dejong reprimanded the Trump administration on Tuesday for his “blatant contempt” for the order of the Gallagher court, and described his inclusion in the prisoner’s exchange as a “flagrant violation” of the court.

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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists after having signed a proclamation at the Oval Office of the White House on April 17, 2025. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

The Trump administration, the complainants said on Tuesday, sent Cristian to Venezuela, “the country to whom he seeks to asylum”, without providing notice to the court or his legal team until he is on the ground. They said they had been informed for the first time on Friday evening.

Dejong told court that Cristian’s dismissal to Venezuela seems to have been in preparation for several weeks – suggesting, in their opinion, that the Trump administration may have taken “active and determined measures to expel (Cristian) to the country from which he fears persecution”.

“I am not saying that lightly, and it is a heavy question to consider, but given the history of violations here, criminal contempt should be on the table,” said Dejong.

Gallagher did not immediately update this option, although she noted that she would only do after a distinct discovery process in government behavior.

“We are in a different position now,” said Gallagher, nodding to what she described as the “unusual” procedural situation of the court.

She also pointed out that the court still did not have the answer to the question of whether the Trump administration had tried to comply with the court order to facilitate the return of Cristian to the United States, or if he even made such a request to the Salvador government.

“We do not know if it happened or not,” Gallagher told the prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice Ruth Ann Mueller.

The Ministry of Justice has tried, without success, to argue that the case is theoretical.

“No, that does not respect my order,” said Gallagher. “This does not answer the question.”

After a short break, Cristian’s lawyers told Gallagher that they would deposit the measures linked to the appropriate sanctions in the next 10 days.

In the meantime, she said Gallagher, she will force the Trump administration to file weekly situation reports on the status of Cristian in Venezuela, from this Friday.

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Tuesday’s hearing was relatively short, but not insignificant.

In a remarkable exchange, lawyers of the Ministry of Justice argued that any continuous discussion or discovery in the case – including attempts to determine the status of Cristian in Venezuela – are “outside the scope” of the court.

Gallagher was interrupted to note that the discoveries of the sanctions and the requests to be forced would allow the Court to examine the “global conduct” of the Trump administration in the case.

The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another migrant who is wrongly expelled in Salvador, has similarities with the case of Cristian. (Fox News)

The case presents many similarities with the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoral migrant expulsion wrongly to El Salvador in March and ordered by a federal judge to be returned to the United States

Like Abrego Garcia, Cristian stayed in Salvador for months, despite an order of the court demanding his return and forcing the administration to file regular updates of his status in order to determine compliance with the order.

But the Tuesday request audience – and the blitz of court documents submitted to Gallagher in recent days – have stressed the very different situation which took place instead.

“Cristian was a pawn in this plan,” said Dejong on Tuesday, noting that the government took “useful active measures to deport it” despite the order of the court and with apparent previous knowledge.

“They could have included it” on the return flight to the United States with Abrego Garcia, he argued.

Instead, said Dejong, “the only reasonable inference we see is that government lawyers have voluntarily ignored” the court.

Gallagher in May refused to grant the Trump administration’s request for her to raise her order, which forces them to make Cristian. She pointed out that her order had nothing to do with the strength of her asylum request, in the blink of an eye to two apparent low -level drug offenses and a conviction as recently as January.

On the contrary, she said, it is a question of allowing him a regular procedure under the law and under the regulations struck by the DHS.

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She said it was not a question of knowing if Lozano -Camargo would eventually receive asylum – it was a question of process.

The DHS settlement agreement “forces him to be here and to have his audience,” she said.