Sent to El Salvador despite protected legal status

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4. administration admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison by mistake

... "The government's filing was pretty shocking because they admitted everything that we alleged," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the lawyer representing Abrego Garcia and his family, told NPR.

Although Justice Department lawyers acknowledge the mistake in Abrego Garcia's case, they say there is nothing federal officials can do because he is now in custody of another country.

And White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday doubled down on his deportation, pointing to his links to MS-13 — which Abrego Garcia's lawyers dispute.

This latest case adds to the growing judicial scrutiny about the deportations, and has even prompted some consternation from one of Trump's allies. Joe Rogan, the popular host of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast who endorsed Trump last year, this week raised concerns with potential errors in the El Salvador deporations ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error