Federal judge scolds US government for Maryland father's 'wholly lawless' deportation to El Salvador

MSN - 07/04
The Trump administration admitted last week that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's deportation was due to an 'administrative error'. View on euronews

A federal judge has called the arrest and subsequent deportation of a Maryland father to a mega-prison in El Salvador "wholly lawless".

In a legal opinion explaining why she is demanding that the Trump administration return 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the US, the District Judge Paula Xinis said there was not sufficient evidence to support the “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that he was once in the MS-13 gang.

US officials "ha...
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