00:00So the government gave the, excuse me, the district judge gave the government until the
00:2826th of December, that is to say Friday, to actually answer the question, what is your
00:35plan for Mr. Obrego Garcia?
00:37Are you planning to re-arrest him?
00:39If so, why?
00:40We'll then have the opportunity to respond to that.
00:43And then based on that, the judge will decide whether to convert her temporary order prohibiting
00:49his re-arrest into a permanent order or whether to dissolve it.
00:55So as of right now, Mr. Obrego Garcia is going to return to his home with his wife and his
01:01children and his family members in Maryland.
01:06And he will be at home through Christmas and New Year.
01:17Mr. Obrego Garcia, if he was allowed to sort of choose his path, he would have been in
01:22Costa Rica months ago, right?
01:25And so it's actually the federal government that's keeping him here in the United States
01:28right now in order to keep him behind, previously keep him behind bars of an ICE detention center
01:35and now put him back behind bars of an ICE detention center.
01:38His priority right now is to remain free.
01:41Again, as I said last time, you know, we don't consider just, we don't consider justice that
01:47he be in Costa Rica justice would be that he remain here in Maryland free from the constant
01:52threat, free from the persecution of this government, free from the threat that they're going to
01:57try to remove him to, you know, whatever fourth or fifth or sixth African country they can name,
02:03free from the threat that they're going to send him back to a detention center in Pennsylvania.
02:06That would be justice.
02:08But an acceptable resolution at this point is the resolution that he's fighting for, which
02:13is the ability to take the Costa Rican government up on their offer of refugee status.
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