Require a Hearing Before the Government Deports Anyone

Due process protects any person on U.S.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 24, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Due Process The right to fair procedures before government takes your freedom

The Letter

Subject Require Notice and a Real Hearing Before Any Deportation

No one should be sent to a foreign prison without first seeing a judge. The Constitution says the government cannot take any person's liberty without due process of law, citizen or not.

In March 2025 the government deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, to a prison in El Salvador despite a 2019 court order barring it. It later admitted the mistake. The same weekend it sent 137 men to that prison under a 1798 wartime law with no hearings, and a federal judge has since ruled they were denied due process. A June 2026 appeals ruling also lets officers deport people found anywhere in the country without a judge if they cannot prove two years here.

A hearing before removal is what catches these errors while they can still be fixed. Please support legislation requiring notice and a hearing before a neutral immigration judge before anyone is deported.

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I'm calling to ask the Senator to require a hearing before a judge before the government deports anyone.
The government deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man with a 2019 court order protecting him, and later admitted it was a mistake. A hearing would have caught it.
It sent 137 men to a Salvadoran prison under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act with no hearings, and a federal judge ruled they were denied due process.
Due process protects any person on U.S. soil. Please support legislation requiring notice and a hearing before a neutral immigration judge before any deportation.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

2019 the year a court ordered Abrego Garcia not be deported; the government removed him anyway in March 2025 and called it an error (source)
137 men sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act with no hearings; a federal judge ruled in December 2025 they were denied due process (source)
7-2 Supreme Court vote in May 2025 holding that about 24 hours' notice with no instructions on how to contest removal was not enough (source)

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