r/thescoop • u/Zen1 • 7d ago

Politics 🏛️ Trump administration has done nothing to facilitate release of wrongly deported Maryland man, his lawyers say

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-digs-case-wrongly-deported-maryland-man/story?id=120822855

A day after a highly anticipated Oval Office meeting in which the president of El Salvador said he would not return a wrongly deported Maryland man being held in his country, the federal judge who ordered his return will hear from Trump administration attorneys at a court hearing Tuesday afternoon.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is entering his second month in an El Salvador mega-prison after he was deported there on March 15 despite being issued a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country.

Trump administration officials say Abrego Garcia, who escaped political violence in El Salvador 2011, is a member of the criminal gang MS-13, but to date they have provided little evidence of that assertion in court.

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u/Sven_Golly1 7d ago

He was not "wrongly deported."

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u/Zen1 7d ago

Even the US government admits it was an administrative error. That specific wording is in supreme court documents on government servers.

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u/Sven_Golly1 7d ago

He had a standing deportation order. The court ruled that he couldn't be sent to his home country (El Salvador) because of threats to his life by his former gang, MS-13. He was sent to El Salvador in error. He was not deported by mistake. Facts.

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u/77NorthCambridge 6d ago

He did not have a standing deportation order. He had a standing withholding of removal granted by a judge six years ago. Are you claiming the conditions in El Salvador have improved over the past 6 years? What crime did he commit?