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Trump lawyers confirm wrongly deported Maryland man in El Salvador prison

People with signs saying 'wrongfully held in Trump's overseas Ice jail' and 'bring Kilmar home'
US representatives Nydia Velázquez and Juan Vargas in Washington DC on 9 April. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

The Trump administration on Saturday confirmed to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was wrongly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

However, the White House filing did not address the judge’s demands that the administration detail the steps it was taking to return Kilmar Ábrego García to the United States. The White House only confirmed that García was under the authority of the El Salvador government.

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