Is blunder the new favorite word for the Trump administration? No, remarkably, recent news reports, as per The Atlantic, will shock you with the level of carelessness Donald Trump’s team has come to. On March 31, the Trump administration acknowledged in court that they wrongly deported a Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had protected legal status, to an El Salvadorian prison due to an ‘administrative error.’
This incident is the first time that the government has admitted its mistake of publicly deporting someone. On March 15, the administration sent three flights carrying Salvadoran and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador’s infamous ‘Terrorism Confinement Center,’ falsely claiming they were all members of the Tren de Aragua gang, with no proof to back up the claim.
As per the Irish Star, a federal judge ordered the planes to be turned around the same night. However, Trump’s team ignored the order, arguing that the flights were already in international waters by the time the judge issued the ruling.
Meanwhile, Kilmar Abrego Garcia left El Salvador after gang violence in 2011 and was granted a protected status in 2019 by a judge after he was aware that Gracia would be in danger if he headed back to his country. His lawyers now said that the ICE was aware that he had a protected legal status. Still, despite that, due to carelessness, he was deported.
“Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. On the other hand, Gracia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, argued that this was unprecedented, as he had never witnessed the government deport somebody with a protected legal status.
