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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

How all of Trump’s gang claims against wrongfully deported man boil down to one unnamed informant

The Donald Trump administration’s insistence the Maryland resident deported to El Salvador by mistake is a member of the criminal gang MS-13 can be traced back to a single unnamed police informant, a review of court documents reveals.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, is a construction worker and father of three with no criminal record who was arrested and sent to a notorious mega-prison on March 15, a decision a Justice Department attorney subsequently conceded was the result of an “administrative error.”

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