Abrego Garcia Case caused layoffs, resignations of longtime DoJ, DHS officials

An immigration case with high issues involving Salvadoral Migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia caused the escape, suspension or resignation of several officials from the Ministry of Longtime Justice, eliminating the potential internal resistance to the order of the Trump administration program.

The case of Abrego Garcia, in particular, dominated the headlines for months and has become a flash point to how far the Ministry of Justice is willing to enforce the hard immigration policies of President Donald Trump, even at the cost of enumeration of career officials and to raise it from the suggestions of federal judges that the leaders of the administration act in bad faith.

In Maryland, the testimony of the veteran prosecutor and deputy director of the Order of the Ministry of Justice of Immigration Disputes, Erez Reveni, prompted the Doj to dismiss him after having conceded to the American district judge Paula Xinis that Garcia Garcia was deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error”.

One day after Rebeni’s testimony, senior officials from the Ministry of Justice placed him on indefinite leave, quoting what they described as his inability to “defend zealous” for the government. (His supervisor at the Ministry of Justice, August Flenger, was also put on leave.)

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer, speak to supporters in front of an ice cream office in Baltimore, Maryland. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

Reveni, who had received the beefs from his supervisors at the MJ during Trump’s first term in the White House, was dismissed shortly after.

His assertion to the Court was supported by the field director of the time for the implementing and dismissal operations of the ICE, Robert Cerna. Cerna declared that the court in a statement under an oath on March 31, Abrego Garcia had been moved to the Salvador despite the restraint of the referral order granted by a judge in 2019. “Abrego Garcia, originally and citizen of Salvador, was on the third flight (from one to El Salvador) and therefore had his order for El Salvador. “This deletion was a mistake.”

He was not immediately clear if Cerna still remains in his role in the DHS, and the agency officials did not immediately respond to the Fox News comments.

But months later, a high -ranking federal prosecutor in Nashville suddenly resigned from his role as head of the criminal division for the American prosecutor’s office for the Tennessee district.

Ben Schrader, an American prosecutor who spent 25 years at the Ministry of Justice, announced his resignation as head of the Criminal Division of the American Intermediate District of Tennessee the same day as the Ministry of Justice obtained an accusation against Abrego Garcia for two charges in Nashville linked to a traffic stop in 2022.

As the indictment was transmitted, Abrego Garcia was still detained in Salvador and lawyers in the department told a Federal Maryland judge whom he “would never make” on American soil.

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

The criminal accusations were only sealed after Abrego Garcia was sent back to the United States in early June.

“It was an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor at the Ministry of Justice, where the only description of the job I have ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons,” said Schrader in a statement on LinkedIn announcing his departure.

Although Schrader refused to detail publicly what his reasons were to leave the Ministry of Justice, several points of sale at the time, including ABC News, reported that he had left following the indictment.

Overall, the enlargements indicate how the Ministry of Justice Trump actively pushes the officials who oppose the policies of the president, or do not defend enough what criticisms have called illegal measures before the courts.

Consequently, the judges managing the many cases of Abrego Garcia expressed an increase in the skepticism of the actions of the doj.

We do not know what, if necessary, one of the former officials of the Ministry of Justice could have done differently in the case of Abrego Garcia.

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Supporters meet in a vigil at sunrise in Baltimore, Maryland, to show their support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorant migrant who was arrested by ice before plans to repaint him this time in a third country, like Uganda. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

It is also difficult to know if it would have been appropriate for civil servants to intervene in any capacity.

The decision of the Ministry of Justice to dismiss Rebeni and to place its supervisor on leave underlined the duration that the ministry is willing to ensure that its opinions are represented by the court.

More than anything, however, the change of posture was underlined in the numerous status hearies that the judges ordered in certain cases, in particular by obliging certain officials to appear in court and to testify under oath.

These obligations, in addition to updates to daily status and in -depth requirements of discovery, are perhaps the clearest signal that the relationship between the courts and the officials of the Ministry of Justice – that which, for years, has experienced healthy confidence levels – has eroded, the result of what the judges characterized as the recent response of the Ministry of Justice of the Obfuscation, Evasion and ” Judicial ordinances.

More than one opportunity, it has encouraged them to accuse the government of playing in bad faith and voluntarily challenging the court.

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Judge Xinis, who previously described the actions of the Ministry of Justice in the Abrego Garcia case as a “deliberate refusal and bad to comply” to judicial orders, reprimanded a lawyer for the Ministry of Justice earlier this year for the lack of franchise in the Abrego Garcia case.

“This is the process from the first day,” scratched Xinis during this status audience. “You have taken the presumption of regularity and you destroyed it, in my opinion.”