Judge hearing arguments over Maryland man deported by ‘error’ to El Salvador

A federal judge listens to arguments on Friday in the case of a man from Maryland with a protected legal status, which was sent to the notorious prison in Sekot in El Salvador after an “administrative mistake” by the Trump administration.

The government acknowledged the mistake, but said in a court case that since Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was no longer in the US arrest, the court could not order to be returned to the United States, nor could the court order El Salvador to return it.

Last month, Abrego Garcia, who has the wife of US citizens and a 5-year-old child, was stopped by ice staff who “inform him that his immigration status had changed,” according to his lawyers. He was detained and then transferred to the Texas Retention Center, after which he was sent to the notorious prison in Salvador, along with more than 200 alleged members of the Venezuelan band, on March 15.

Abrego Garcia entered the United States in 2011 when he was 16 to escape from the violence of bands in El Salvador, according to his lawyers. His lawyers say that in 2019 a confidential informant “advised that Abrego Garcia was an active member” of the MS-13 gang. Later, Abrego Garcia filed an I-589 request for asylum and although a removable was found, an immigration judge “gave him a refusal of eliminating El Salvador,” the lawyers said.

Abrego Garcia’s attorneys say he “is not a member or has no connection with Tren de Aragua, MS-13 or other criminal or street gang” and said the US government had never produced Iota from evidence to support this unjustified accusation. “

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt, who acknowledged the government’s mistake when sending him to El Salvador-Narechet Abrego Garcia leader of MS-13.

“The administration maintains the position that this individual who was deported to Salvador and will not return to our country was a member of the brutal and vicious MS-13 gang,” Levitt said.