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Hugo Lowell and Léonie Chao-Fong in Maryland

Judge rebukes Trump officials for not securing return of wrongly deported man

woman speaks in front of cameras as people gather behind her, holding signs
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, speaks during a press conference amid a hearing in the case related to García, outside US district court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

A federal judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration and scolded officials on Tuesday for taking no steps to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, as the US supreme court had ordered in a contentious ruling last week.

The US district judge Paula Xinis said that Donald Trump’s news conference with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, where the leaders joked that Kilmar Ábrego García would not be released, did not count as compliance.

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