The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it does not have the power to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant who was wrongfully deported to his home country of El Salvador, as he is already in the custody of a foreign nation.
In a court filing with the U.S. District Court in Maryland, Joseph Mazzara, acting general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said the department has taken steps to remove “domestic obstacles” but that it “does not have authority to forcibly extract an alien from the domestic custody of a foreign sovereign nation.”…