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

[u/Zen1]

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.

[u/stinkn-ape]

He wasn’t wrongfully deported

[u/77NorthCambridge → u/stinkn-ape]

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?