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US Won't Say Whether It's Facilitating Return of Mistakenly Deported Man, Despite Judge's Order
The Statesman Kolkata
|April 14, 2025
The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.
But the government's filing did not address the judge's demands that the administration detail what steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. The government said only that Abrego Garcia, 29, is under the authority of the El Salvador government.
This story is from the April 14, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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