It's Friday, December 12th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
a show celebrating the Department of Justice
for failing to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
It's time to leave Tish alone, guys.
On today's show, dueling healthcare bills fail in the Senate,
setting Republicans back from concepts of a plan to concepts of a concept of a plan.
And is nothing sacred?
Nature lovers push back on plans to make President Donald Trump the face of their national park adventures.
But let's start with immigration.
On Thursday, a federal judge ordered Kilmar-Abrega Garcia be released from immigration detention.
Another twist in the story of the man wrongfully deported to an El Salvadoran super-prison earlier this year.
Here's CBS News' Camillo Montoya-Galvez quoting the judge's ruling.
Because respondents, meaning the government,
have no statutory authority to remove Aureo Garcia to a third country absent a removal order,
a deportation order, his removal cannot be considered reasonably foreseeable,
imminent, or consistent with due process.
Although respondents may eventually get it right, they have not as of today.
What Garcia has experienced seems to me to be a microcosm of what immigration has looked like under the Trump administration for the last 12 months or so.
Cruelty and incompetence, both at their absolute worst.