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When it resumed, Ensign told the court: “I have spoken with DHS. They are not aware of any current plans for flights tomorrow, but I have also been told to say that they reserve the right to remove people tomorrow, that that would be consistent with” the Supreme Court’s earlier decision.

“They are disappearing people, marking them as dead in the Social Security database if they are people that DHS has deemed shouldn’t be in the country anymore… they’re digitally murdering these folks.”

“We were trying to kind of create this time capsule, like around the old DHS of this moment,” said Youssef.

The Department of Homeland Security “is prepared to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s presence in the United States,” Joseph Mazzara, the acting general counsel at DHS, said in a sworn statement.

If he arrives “at a port of entry,” DHS “would take him into custody ... and either remove him to a third country or terminate his withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and remove him to El Salvador.”