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DOJ Ignores Court Ordered Deadline for Plan to Return Wrongly Deported Man: 'Is Anyone Moving With Any Kind of Speed?'

US Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) [left] and Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) [right] hold pictures of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was deported to the maximum security prison in El Salvador due to an "administrative error." (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Despite a unanimous US Supreme Court ruling ordering the Trump administration to return a Maryland resident wrongly deported to El Salvador, the Department of Justice failed to meet the court-mandated deadline to provide a plan for his return on Friday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has no criminal record, was deported in what the administration now calls an "administrative error." The DOJ has been ordered by the high court to "facilitate and effectuate" his release and return to the United States, but has not yet complied.

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