Updates on Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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"He's never been convicted for anything," Jennifer Vasquez told ABC News Live Prime on Wednesday.
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the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted a judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to return him by the end of the day Monday.
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His legal presence in the US was based on a protection known as “withholding of removal,” which was granted by an immigration judge in 2019. That status is awarded when a judge determines that deporting someone would expose them to persecution or torture in their home country.
A federal judge has ordered that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia be returned to the U.S. after being deported last month to an El Salvadoran megaprison.
A federal judge's deadline to return an alleged undocumented gang member from a prison in his native country of El Salvador, continues to loom over the Trump Administration.
Garcia, who says he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, said his client has never been convicted of any crime.
AG Pam Bondi doubled down on the Trump administration's decision to deport alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, pointing to recently-apprehended violent criminals.
The Trump administration has maintained that the Maryland father deported to El Salvador last month was a member of the international criminal gang MS-13