Trump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrant

April 1, 2025 ☼ --washingtonposttrump

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The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing that it had wrongly deported an immigrant living in Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador despite a judge’s ruling prohibiting it, but said U.S. officials are unable to return the man to his family in the United States.

Officials deported Kilmar Abrego García, who is Salvadoran, on March 15 as part of a surprise airlift of purported gang members to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, where they were surrounded by armed soldiers and hooded police who shaved their heads and locked them inside high-walled cells. His removal came six years after an immigration judge found that Abrego García had testified credibly that he could be harmed or killed by gang members in that country.