According to a series of legal documents that were presented on Monday, March 31, the Government of the USA deported accidentally to a man with protected legal status and sent him to the megacárcel of El Salvador known as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), due to an “administrative error”.
The subject in question that was sent to the Salvadoran prison and who is currently caught in a legal lagoon is Kilmar Abrego Garcíawho arrived in the United States in January 2011 since El Salvador and since 2019 is a legal resident protected by a court order that prevented him from being sent back to his country.
However, in judicial documents, the US government admitted that on Saturday, March 15 Abrego García was deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICEfor its acronym in English), which was aware of his protection against the expulsion.
As stated by the American magazine, The Atlantic, Deporteing lived in the state of Maryland Together with his wife and 5 -year -old son, who is autistic and has an intellectual disability. In addition, both parents worked full time in the United States to be able to give everything necessary to their firstborn.
Deportations to El Salvador
The deportation of Abrego García was recorded because the administration of the US president, Donald Trump, He made the decision to send hundreds of people to El Salvador, mainly to the alleged members of the Venezuelan band Aragua train and of the terrorist organization of criminal gangsMara Salvatrucha.
Abrego was sent back to his country on Saturday, March 15, when three planes full of criminal cases were sent to TecolucaEl Salvador. However, the lawyers of some deportees have said that their clients “were falsely accused of affiliation to gangs “, mainly for their tattoos.
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Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vásquez Surahired a legal team to submit a lawsuit in the United States District Court located in Maryland, where he asks the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, that guarantees the return of the Salvadoran to your home and leaves the prison as soon as possible.
Given this situation, the United States government said Courts Americans “have no competence to request their release”, because an unidentified informant told them that the Salvadoran was an active member of the criminal gang MS-13Whose activities include violation, drug trafficking and extortion, among others.
Abrego García’s lawyers denied the accusations and said that the US government. ” evidence To support this unfounded accusation “, since the deporte left El Salvador to escape the violence of gangs after the mafia They will threatened to kill him in an attempt to extort their parents.
In addition, the Salvadoran’s wife learned that her husband was on Cecot after having seen him in a recording with the skinhead And completely dressed in white: “Jennifer acknowledged his tattoos and scars on the head,” added the lawyer, who wishes to free him from the largest prison in Latin America.