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He would say, "Oh, it's a foreign affairs matter. You can't."

And as Boasberg noted, there's no foreign affairs exception to producing information in court.

The justices ruled that the U.S. government is required to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S., but lower district courts must give “deference” to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.

In February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that any agency’s actions on immigration and border control “constitute a foreign affairs function … under the Administrative Procedure Act”—the unstated implication being to shoehorn a broad set of regulatory polices into a narrow statutory exemption to bypass public comment.

“For example, if Trump decides to deport a citizen to the El Salvador prison, as he has suggested he could do and would do under his broad foreign affairs power, and even though the citizen is protected by the Constitution from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment," Gersham said, "how is that right enforced?”