Sent to El Salvador despite protected legal status

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6. ICE blames 'error' for deportation of man with protected legal status

Last edited Tue Apr 1, 2025, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)

...on Monday, acting Ice field office director Robert Cerna described the deportation in a court declaration as “an error”. He said that Abrego-Garcia was “not on the initial manifest of the … flight to be removed to El Salvador” but “rather, he was an alternate”.

As other detainees “were removed from the flight for various reasons”, Abrego-Garcia “moved up the list and was assigned to the flight”, Cerna said.

He added: “The manifest did not indicate that Abrego-Garcia should not be removed.

“Through administrative error, Abrego-Garcia was removed from the United States to El Salvador. This was an oversight, and the removal was carried out in good faith based on the existence of a final order of removal and Abrego-Garcia’s purported membership in MS-13.

This removal was an error.”

In the filing, the administration said that it no longer has custody of Abrego-Garcia and therefore does not have ability to bring him back to the US ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/ice-error-deported-maryland-man-el-salvador