After listening to Senator Klobuchar's argument on the meanings of "effectuate" as used by the Administration versus used by the Judiciary (on CNN's Sunday program "State of the Nation" today), it seems to me the disagreement stems from the appropriate synonym of the term in the context each governmental organ means by it.
"Effectuate" in the Administration's sense of the term refers to "the implementation in the change in action the directive is demanding;" whereas the Judiciary is using it to "make a substantial change in the thing or person to undergo the change ordered."
To put it succinctly, in the Administration's use, there is no change in the status of the person being proposed by the directive of the Courts, but in the Judiciary sense, the directive suggests a reversal of the status the thing or person has now to what it was before. For importantly, the President of El Salvador accepts the use of "effectuate" as offered by the Administration. The mistake was to change his status from "living in the United States--not to be transported back to El Salvador for sake of his security," thereby omitting that he had left life in El Salvador, seeking a new life here.
My interpretation.
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