Some Republicans say the Trump administration needs to provide answers about the “administrative error” that led to a man being wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison — and possibly even get him back.
“I don’t have any problem with deporting him to a ‘safe third country,’ but I do think that we have a moral obligation to get him out of the prison and get him out of El Salvador,” Sen. Thom Tillis said. “I mean, we put him there.”
The Trump administration said it deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man living in Maryland, due to an error. A judge ruled in 2019 that Abrego Garcia could not be deported to El Salvador because he would likely become the target of gang violence, but last month he was sent to the country anyway as part of a deal to put deportees in an infamous prison there. The Trump administration says it can’t get him back.