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CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig tore into the Trump administration’s newest attempt to justify its deportation of the Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador under the president’s hardline immigration agenda.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday released a 2022 traffic stop report, the agency claimed contained “bombshell” proof that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a suspected human trafficker.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a fiery speech in defense of the rights of wrongly deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia after meeting with him following nearly a month of lockup in a notorious Salvadoran megaprison. But to former Democratic National Committee official Mo Elithee, he may have spent too much time focusing on the wrong thing.

Specifically, Elithee told a follow-up panel on CNN he had concerns with how much time Van Hollen devoted to debunking the idea that the drinks at the table where he was photographed meeting with Abrego Garcia were "margaritas," or at least that they had been ordered willingly.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the same judge who has threatened to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court for ignoring judicial orders on how to handle mass migrant deportations, called an emergency meeting on Friday evening over another potential round of removals, CNN's Priscilla Alvarez reported.

"There is a group of Venezuelan migrants at a detention facility in Texas who are concerned that they are going to be deported under the sweeping wartime authority known as the Alien Enemies Act," Alvarez told anchor Jake Tapper. "Now, there have been court rulings across the country to block some people from being removed under this authority. This particular district in Texas, the Northern District, is not — is not the case."

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) tried to dispel notions Friday that he and Kilmar Ábrego García — the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison — were drinking margaritas during their meeting earlier in the week.

Van Hollen landed at Dulles International Airport on Friday after a two-day trip to El Salvador, where he asked to see Ábrego García. The U.S. government has previously admitted he was wrongfully deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a speech at Dulles International Airport on Friday, detailing his experience traveling to El Salvador to track down the wrongfully deported Maryland family man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom he finally managed to get into contact with on Thursday evening after days of getting the run-around from government officials.

"We need to end the illegal abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and bring him home," said Van Hollen, who has previously accused the Trump administration of misinformation on the case.

Col. Nicole Malachowski was celebrated for being the first woman selected to fly Thunderbird #3 with the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron and the first woman to fly on any Department of Defense military jet demonstration team. But all articles about her were yanked from websites in accordance with President Donald Trump's directive to remove all diversity, equity and inclusion content from government sites.

The Air Force later told CNN in a statement that the content was being restored. When CNN looked at the stories, they are now headlined saying, "DEI_A Life in flight for the first woman 'Thunderbirds' pilot."

President Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller doubled down Friday afternoon in the White House's clash with judges in a high-profile deportation case, insisting the Supreme Court has been "abundantly clear" and that the administration cannot return a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported to the country due to what the Trump administration called an administrative error. The Supreme Court issued a murky ruling that the Trump administration must "facilitate" his return, but kicked the case back to a lower court to clarify "effectuate." The U.S. government has maintained he is a threat due to alleged gang ties, though his family and legal team dispute the claims.

NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian and legal analyst Danny Cevallos think that an appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals backfired against President Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Dilanian addressed the case involving Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man brought to the U.S. as a teenager 15 years ago. García was detained by the government and shipped to an El Salvador prison despite a judge saying that he could not be sent to El Salvador. The Justice Department's lawyers called the deportation a "clerical error," and admitted in court that he was wrongfully deported to the prison.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on president Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, but Americans are broadly opposed to that policy – and CNN's John Berman was shocked by its unpopularity.

Three district courts have already paused his order to end birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally, and CNN's Harry Enten showed polling data on the issue that found Americans increasingly support that right which is enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

President Donald Trump has been making it increasingly clear that he would like to start deporting American citizens to foreign prisons, but experts agree there's no legal basis that would allow him to do that.

The president reportedly thinks it's an "80-20" issue, meaning that he believes a vast majority of Americans agree that citizens who have committed certain violent crimes should be shipped off to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, but former Justice Department appointee Elliot Williams told "CNN This Morning" the law wouldn't permit it.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was forced to speak over border czar Tom Homan on Friday morning as he lectured the Donald Trump appointee over the treatment of immigrants.

During the interview with the official tasked with handling Trump's mass deportations, the "Morning Joe" host asked Homan if he believed his people are treating detainees "humanely" at which point the two proceeded to butt heads.

Scarborough kicked off the squabble by asking about the Trump administration's hope that immigrants will "self deport," by asking, "If they if they go to the app or they go to ICE officials are you guaranteeing that if they want to self-deport and do it the right way, as you say, that they will be treated humanely and be allowed to go back to their homeland in a humane manner?"

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"We treat all people humanely," Homan pushed back with Scarborough interjecting, "A lot of people would disagree."

"I know there's a lot of bad stories out," the Trump official plowed ahead. "I think it's fake news. But look, I've been doing this, I've been well, I've been doing this since 1984; we do things humanely. We're the most giving nation in the world, we welcome more people to this country, refugees, than any other nation in the world. This is a very giving nation, and I've been in this business since 1984, and we do everything humanely."

"Well. I think, Mr. Homan, I've always said America's fed and freed more people across the world than than any country that's ever existed. We are city like [Ronald] Reagan said, that shines brightly on the hill for all the world to see," Scarborough agreed before countering, "I think, though, people are saying some of the situations, especially with what's happened with people being pulled off the streets and sent down to a maximum security prison in El Salvador without any due process ––."

"But you know, but you know, Joe, what people look and people are," Homan interrupted.

"If you let me finish and then I'll, sir," the MSNBC hoist admonished his guest. "I'll let you finish. That strikes a lot of Americans as being un-American and that even people like myself that's been talking about the need for strong borders for 30 years."

"You know, I think a lot of conservatives, and I could read you quotes from a lot of conservatives here who say they want gang members out, they want violent members out, but there's a right way to do it, and there's a wrong way to do it," he lectured. "And a lot of people believe that what we've seen over the past three months is the wrong way to do it."

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