The Donald Trump administration has admitted to accidentally sending a Maryland father to El Salvador mega prison and now they can’t get him back to the United States.
Outrage continues to grow over the Maryland father that Donald Trump’s administration mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador. On March 12, 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was pulled over in an IKEA parking lot and arrested. Abrego Garcia had his 5-year-old son in the car with him as well.
In court documents, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said saltheir son misses his father badly. She said, “He shows me how much he missed Kilmar. He has been finding Kilmar’s work shirts and smelling them, to smell Kilmar’s familiar scent.” The wife also said she identified her husband in a photo of detainees entering intake at CECOT, El Salvador’s notorious mega prison.
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According to CNN, in 2019, an immigration judge granted Abrego Garcia protection against deportation back to El Salvador. Although he entered the U.S. illegally from El Salvador around 2011, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said he fled his homeland due to gang violence over a decade ago. Now that he is back in his native land, he now faces persecution by local gangs.
While in the States, Abrego Garcia also had a legal work permit issued by the Department of Homeland Security. He worked as a sheet metal apprentice and was pursuing his journeyman license. Despite having protection by a previous immigration judge’s order, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) under Donald Trump sent the Maryland father back to his native El Salvador.
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Trump Administration Calls Maryland Father’s Accidental Deportation To El Salvador An ‘Administrative Error’
On Monday (March 31), Trump’s administration has acknowledged the incident as an “administrative error.” Despite this, however, White House officials have argued against requesting his return. They claim they need proof showing that he does not have ties to the MS-13 gang. Additionally, Trump’s administration claims they do not have the power to request a return from El Salvador’s government. At best, they claim they can only order the White House to “entreat or even cajole, a close ally.”
Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia’s family and attorneys insist that he does not have any gang ties. They argue that the Trump administration has little evidence to prove their claim. In court documents filed on Wednesday (April 2), the Maryland father’s lawyers argued the Trump administration must correct their mistake and bring their client home.
Attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg suggests that the United States just asks El Salvador to return Abrego Garcia. He added, “[Immigration court orders are] meaningless, because the government can deport whomever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want.” The attorney also claimed that the United States government has been paying El Salvador’s government to incarcerate Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and other deportees accused of being gang members.
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