If you're here illegally - or even if you've lawfully applied for asylum - the government can always choose to detain you until the completion of your immigration hearings.

Maybe that's the piece I'm misunderstanding. Did all of these people already complete their immigration hearings? If not, weren't they deported without a hearing? (Except for Abrego-Garcia. I'm pretty sure he's a slightly different case.)

And we still have the problem of the failure to follow a legal judicial order to return the planes to the US, followed by the apparent refusal to follow a USSC ruling to take steps to return those who should not have made it to a foreign country in the first place. Perhaps I should limit my complaint to that portion of my previous post. If officers of the Executive branch can ignore a judge's order without repercussion, what would keep them from doing the same to me? Or you? Or anyone else? And THAT could bring up habeas issues.

--Peter