On Sunday, April 6, a federal judge insisted that the president’s administration Donald Trump “He must bring the United States back to the man of Maryland which was deported by a serious mistake “to the terrorism confinement center (CECOT), The maximum security prison in El Salvador.
In this case, the man in question was deported by an “administrative error” is the Salvadoran Kilmar Armando Ábrego Garcíaa US resident since 2011 and holder of a Green Cardthe identity document for residents of the US territory who do not have the nationality of the North American country.
Ábrego García was deported to the Salvadoran municipality of Tecoluca Last Saturday, March 15 with dozens of Venezuelan and Central American men, who allegedly, according to officials of the Donald Trump administration, are active members of the gangs Aragua train and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
According to Kilmar’s lawyer, El Salvadoran was captured last Wednesday, March 12 by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICEfor its acronym in English), when he was in a parking lot with his son autistic 5 years old, who stayed in the back seat of the vehicle during the arrest.
“The expelled migrant belongs to the MS-13”
The judge of the Maryland district, Paula Xinisdeclared the deportation of Kilmar Armando Ábrego García on April 4 was “completely illegal” and for that same reason he ordered the US government to return the Salvadoran to the territory of the United States before the 23.59 hours This Monday, April 7.
“The agents arrested Kilmar without any legal authority; they held him in three different national detention centers without a legal basis; they did not present him to any judge or immigration office and transported it by force to El Salvador, where he is deprived of food, water and Adequate refuge”, Said the judge on Saturday, April 5.
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However, the lawyers of the Department of Justice They indicated that they cannot return to Ábrego because it is in Salvadoran custody, argued that the court does not have the power to order the return of the Salvadoran and that the judge is being “Inrooting in the powers of President Trump in the foreign policy”
Given this situation, the Republican president suggested, during the morning of this Monday, April 7, that the 29-year-old Salvadoran deported by “error” to the CECOT belongs to the Mara Salvatrucha: “Someone told me that he is a member of the MS-13 badPerhaps as bad as the Aragua train gang, “Trump added.
According to his lawyer, Kilmar Armando Ábrego García fled from El Salvador and arrived in the United States to escape from the violence of the gangs when he was a teenager, at 15, because the members of these bands had “beaten and threatened to kidnap him in an attempt to extort to his parents. “
However, in February 2018, El Salvadoran and three other migrants were arrested in the county of Prince George, Maryland, because the police accused them of being involved with Mara Salvatrucha, arguing that a “confidential informant” had told the authorities that they were three members of the gang.