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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump team wanted ‘gentleman’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia safely returned to US, emails show. Then the case made headlines

Emails and text messages from a Department of Justice whistleblower to members of Congress reveal how top Trump administration officials and government lawyers shifted gears to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a Salvadoran prison despite admitting he was there in error.

Erez Reuveni, a 15-year veteran of the Justice Department who was working in the Office of Immigration Litigation, was closely involved with several high-profile immigration cases in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency when he was fired in April.

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