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Maya Yang

Kristi Noem says Kilmar Ábrego García would be deported immediately if sent back to US

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, speaks during a news conference in Maryland.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, speaks during a news conference in Maryland. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said that if Kilmar Ábrego García was sent back to the US, the Donald Trump administration “would immediately deport him again”.

Noem repeated White House assertions about Ábrego García, a Salvadorian man who the Trump administration has admitted was mistakenly deported from Maryland last month, in a new interview with CBS.

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