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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump lawyers defy court over questions about status of wrongly deported Maryland dad

Donald Trump’s administration refused a court order for updates on a wrongfully imprisoned Maryland father locked up in El Salvador’s notorious prison, and to outline what steps, if any, they’re taking to get him home.

After refusing to file a written response on Friday morning, government lawyers could not answer questions from a federal judge in person during a hearing about the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has spent nearly one month in a brutal Salvadoran jail after he was deported because of an “administrative error.”

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