The U.S. government attorney also struggled to provide any information about the exact whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite Thursday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Trump administration must bring him back.
“Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom.
“I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “All I know is that he’s not here. The government was prohibited from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question: where is he?”
It’s possible that people get thrown into that prison without tracking who or where they are once they get in.
“Look, we know they’re never coming out anyway, keeping track of who we throw in there would be a waste of time and money” sounds like exactly the kind of “efficiency” this administration is known for
That’s another possibility, and also possibly why they’re trying to say that trips to that prison are always life sentences. That’s the only way not having tracking makes any kind of sense at all. But realistically, every prison, even a Salvadorian super jail, is going to have some kind of tracking, or they’d never know if they lost a prisoner.
Just assign them a number when they enter without their identity assigned to it. Use a random ID with no date associated to it.
Why specifically no date assigned? Also, what you’ve described is a UUIDv4.
They can track the date he was admitted and know he’s one of 15 people admitted in a range if they have an ID but no name.