A judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must return a Salvadoran national, whom it mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, back to the United States no later than Monday night.
Judge Paula Xinis, a federal judge in Maryland, said in an order that Trump officials violated immigration law by deporting Kilmar Abrego-Garcia along with more than 250 alleged Venezuelan and Salvadoran gang members on March 15.
Xinis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said Trump officials must “facilitate and effectuate” Abrego-Garcia’s return after they admitted in court filings that his deportation was an “administrative error.”
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The Department of Justice, which has been defending Trump’s aggressive and novel deportation strategy in multiple court cases, had argued to Xinis that the error was
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