Members of the Hispanic Caucus in Congress hold photos of Kilmer Abrego Garcia at a press conference and will discuss arrest and deportation in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 2025.
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A Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador is alive and still in detention in the country, the Trump administration said. Submit He became a federal judge on Saturday.
According to Michael G. Kozak, a senior official at the Western Hemisphere Bureau of the State Department, Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia is being held at El Salvador’s terrorist confinement center.
“He lives in the facility and is safe. He is detained in accordance with the sovereignty of the national authorities of El Salvador,” also wrote Kolzak.
The submission follows Paula Sinis’ order on Friday, and is said to be providing daily updates on their efforts to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
In her new order issued after the Supreme Court upheld her original order to bring Abrego Garcia back, Sinis directed the federal government to “take all available measures to promote return” to the United States as soon as possible. She also ordered the Department of Justice to immediately update his location and status, measures taken by the government to reclaim Abrego Garcia, and what additional actions it is considering.
The Trump administration on Friday called for more time to answer Xinis’ questions, arguing that the government “needs a meaningful opportunity to consider the Supreme Court decision before being ordered to report what steps to take according to the decision.”
Abrego Garcia is a Salvador resident who lived in Maryland for almost 15 years. He initially entered the United States without a legal status, but in 2019 a federal judge admitted that if he returned to El Salvador he was protected from deportation due to concerns about his safety. He also had no criminal history.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in March and was placed on a flight with another man who the Trump administration claimed to be a member of Venezuela gangster Tren de Aragua. Department of Justice Attorney Recognised In court that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was wrong, or, as he said, was “administrative error.”
“We’re incredible. There’s no answer to carrying out the Supreme Court decision 24 hours a day, about what they’re doing and what they’re going to do in the future,” Simon Sandoval Moshenberg, a lawyer for Abrego Garcia, said in a statement to NPR.
Murray Osorio PLLC, whose immigration law firm Sandoval Moshenberg represents Abrego Garcia, said that approval of his location was “an excessive first step, but nothing to address the government’s obligation to return him to the United States safely and immediately.”
“The continued delay in enforcement of Supreme Court mandate is not only unacceptable, but is directly humiliated by the rule of law,” the company said. “The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State must act further without delay and provide full transparency on the measures being taken to ensure Abrego Garcia’s safe return.”
NPR’s Joel Rose, Nina Totenberg and Christina Gatti were present in this report.
