A family father from Maryland was expelled to an infamous imprisonment in El Salvador, even though he lived under legal protection in the United States.
This is after an administrative mistake at the US Migration Authority ICE.
Now the Trump administration admits that they are failed, but at the same time states that they are not something they can do to fix the matter, reports CNN.
Kilmer Armado Abreco-Garcia has a wife with American citizenship and a child of five years in Maryland, USA. He himself is in the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador, after falling victim to an administrative mistake in the US migration and customs authority, ICE- and expelled.
The US authorities certainly considered him “removable” in 2019, but a migration court at the same time granted him in the United States and he also received protected legal status in the country. Something that meant that he could not be expelled to El Salvador.
Stated to have connections to MS-13
Despite this, abrego Garcia was stopped by officials from the authority who informed him that his immigration status has changed, with reference to a previous information from a secret source that he must have had links to the gang MS-13 in El Salvador.
However, his lawyers believe that it is incorrect information, and that evidence has not been produced that “supports this unfounded accusation”, according to ABC News
After being imprisoned, he was transferred to a Texas detention center before being sent to El Salvador on March 15.
It was in a photo that showed when prisoners entered the notorious prison that his wife could identify him.
Acknowledges his mistake
An official for the authority on Monday acknowledged the mistake, in connection with the laws of Abrego’s lawyers submitting a lawsuit to the court.
“Abreco-Garcia, citizen of El Salvador, was on the third aircraft and thus got his expulsion to El Salvador completed,” said an ICE official about the case and added:
“This expulsion was incorrect.”
Since Abrego-Garcia is no longer in US repository, the court cannot order that he be returned to the United States, nor order El Salvador to return him.
In a statement on X, Vice President JD Vance said that “it is stupid to be upset that gang members are expelled while ignoring citizens who are exposed to them”.