We have ordered to return man who was wrongly sent to El Salvador Prison

(Bloomberg) – A federal judge gave the government until the end of Monday to return a man to the US after saying it mistakenly sent him to a prison in El Salvador in an ‘administrative error’. US district judge Paula Xinis on Friday ordered the government to get Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador’s notorious terrorism locking center after finding that he was probably removed from the US in violation of law. Xinis said Abrego Garcia got a hold on the removal of his native country in 2019. He was unlawfully arrested on March 12 and transported to El Salvador by March 15 without the right legal process or justification, she said. The US Department of Justice says it is an MS-13 gang member and a danger to the community. His lawyer denies that Abrego Garcia belongs to a gang and said he was a sheet metal worker. The order comes amid a tense downturn between the government and another federal judge who says the US consciously has its command to stop the deportations of Venezolese, according to the Trump administration is gang members. The conflict was particularly loaded after President Donald Trump attacked the judge on that case on social media because he asked that his prosecution of the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice rebuke a rebuke. While US residents should not be ‘wrong’, the US has a ‘strong public interest not to import members of violent transnational gangs into the country’, the government wrote this week in a submission of Federal Court in Maryland in Abrego Garcia. “The individual concerned is a member of the cruel MS-13 gang,” Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Home Security Assistant, said in a statement on Friday. “Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the US, he will be locked up and some of America’s streets.” The government filed a notice of appeal with the court shortly after the order was issued. Abrego Garcia, whose wife and young child is American citizens, sued the US after being flown to El Salvador with more than 200 migrants on one of three aircraft. Two aircraft deported suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the foreign enemies Act of 1798, which provoked an intense legal fight that the US Supreme Court agreed to review. Abrego Garcia was on a third plane not affected by law, the government said. The first two aircraft are the subject of the conflict between US district judge James Boasberg in Washington and the government’s attorneys in that case. The Maryland case is Abrego Garcia v. Name, 25-CV-951, US District Court, District or Maryland (Greenbelt). -With help from Zoe Tillman and David Voreacos. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP