Maria Kari
- Role
- Human-rights attorney and member of the family’s legal team
- Statement date
"No US government agency has presented any evidence to support their allegations."
Source and context
Reporting
About this source
Independent reporting that presents the government and legal-team positions. It supports attribution of the quotations, not resolution of the underlying legal dispute.
Reporting
About this source
Reporting source for competing lawyer and DHS statements. Quoted assertions remain attributed to their speakers.
Before the quotation
Kari spoke to reporters while the family’s detention and removal proceedings were being publicly contested.
After the quotation
The cited reports also present government statements defending the action; this record preserves Kari’s contrary legal-team position.
How this statement is classified
The statement disputes the factual basis offered for the action rather than merely objecting to its outcome.
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