USA. A man deported by mistake to Salvador. Department of State: He is alive, he is all and healthy

A man who was mistakenly deported from Maryland's state to a prison for terrorists in El Salvador, lives and is safe – the US Department of State informed. The Supreme Court ruled that Trump's administration should facilitate his release and return to the USA. The 29-year-old was one of the 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadors, whose administration Trump deported last month to the Cecot center in El Salvador under an agreement between the two countries.

29-year-old Abry Garcia illegally entered USA from El Salvador as a teenager. He has lived in Maryland for almost 15 years. He has a wife and a child who has American citizenship in the USA. In 2019, the federal judge granted him protection against deportation due to fear of his safety in his native country. In the Court's opinion, there was a risk that he would be exposed to persecution from local gangs.

On March 12, Garcia was arrested, and a few days later placed by the American authorities on the plane to El Salvador with other men, whose administration Trump accused of belonging to the Venezuelan Gang Tren de Aragua. The lawyer of the Department of Justice later admitted in court that Garcia's deportation was an “administrative error”. The man was never formally charged with committing a crime in the USA or Salvador. The 29-year-old has never been punished before.

– According to my knowledge, based on the official report of our embassy in San Salvador, Abrego Garcia is detained at the Terrorist Terrorist Center in El Salvador – said on Saturday the official of the State Department Michael Kozak. – He lives and is safe. It is detained according to the sovereign decision of the national Salvador authorities – he added.

Supreme Court decision

On April 4, the District Judge of Maryland Paula Xinis ordered Trump's administration to take immediate steps to bring a man back to the country who was deported to the Salvadorian prison by mistake.

“It was an illegal act,” said the judge during the trial regarding the deportation of Garcia. Judge Xinis ordered the government to bring a man to the United States until 23:59 April 7. She stated that keeping him in El Salvador was irreversible for him. “From the moment he was detained, it was inconsistent with the constitution,” she said, adding that “if there was no document, order, a statement of a probable cause, there were no grounds to stop him.”

Trump's administration announced that he would appeal to the sentence.

Although the Department of Justice admitted that Garcia was deported because of an administrative error, the ministry's lawyers argued in court documents that he was a member of the Latin MS-13 gang, and that the judge has no right to order his return, because Abry Garcia is no longer in the United States. The 29-year-old lawyers said that the claims about his belonging to the gang are “nonsense”. The man's lawyers accused the US government of an attempt to “delay, obscure and disregard court decisions in a situation where human life and security are threatened.”

This week Supreme Court He unanimously maintained the court's decision in Maryland, ordering Trump's administration “to facilitate and realize the” return of Abry Garcia to the United States.

On Friday, Judge Xinis demanded that Trump's administration daily to inform her about the steps taken to bring Garcia back to the USA.

Trump is to meet on Monday with the Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the White House. The US President assured that his administration would bring Abry Garni back to the country if the Supreme Court has so much.

In turn, a spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt, asked on Friday if Trump would seek Garcia's return during a meeting with President, Bukele replied that the Supreme Court's ruling clearly indicates that the administration was to “facilitate the return of Abry Garcia, and not bring him to the country.

Trump announced on Saturday that he was looking forward to meeting bukele. At the same time, he praised President Salvador for taking “hostile strangers” from the United States. He added that both countries work closely to “eradicate terrorist organizations”. “These barbarians are now under the sole care of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future depends on the president (Bukele -Red.) And his government. They will never be threatened or harassed by our citizens!” – Trump wrote in social media.

Mass deportations

In March, President Trump used a rarely used recipe, which was previously used only during the war, to deport over 200 people to El Salvador. He considered them suspected of belonging to the gang.

The president referred to the Act “Alien Enemies Act” (Act on foreign enemies) from 1798, which allows for a quick deportation of foreigners without the need for ordinary procedures. This Act applies to citizens of countries that wage a war with the USA and has been used only a few times in history, recently during World War II to intern immigrants from Japan, Italy and Germanrecognized as hostile.

The Trump administration used “Alien Enemies Act” to deport people suspected of belonging to Gang Tren de Aragua, who allegedly has connections with criminal organizations in Venezuela. Washington argued that the members of the gang “make, try or threaten invasion or robbery invasion of the United States.”

In El Salvador, the alleged gangsters went to the center of secluded terrorism (Cecot) – a huge prison with tightened rigor, built as part of the “hard hand” policy, conducted against gangs by President Nayib Bukeli. Bukele stated that they would stay there for a year with the possibility of extension.

Lawyers and relatives of deported parts claim that the US authorities qualified deported as gangsters, among others, on the basis of “ordinary” tattoos, such as flowers or ball in the crown, reminiscent of the logo of the Real Madrid football team – AP said. Information about tattoos with religious symbols and the names of relatives also appeared in the media.

Tattoos are also the hallmark of some Latin American gangs, for example, tattooed faces of Salvado members of the MS-13 gang are famous. Experts, however, estimate that tattoos are not an important element in the case of the TREA de Aragua gang, and often they are simply a decoration.