The Department of Justice told an appeals court on April 5 that a federal judge in Maryland does not have the authority to order the Trump administration to return a man who was deported to a prison in El Salvador.
Homeland Security investigators have said the man is a leader of the notorious MS-13 transnational gang, recently designated a terrorist organization.
Authorities arrested Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national, in Maryland last month and deported him to El Salvador although a 2019 ruling from an immigration judge shielded him from deportation.
The White House described the deportation of Abrego-Garcia as an “administrative error.”…