Late last month, The Atlantic reported that the federal government acknowledged in court papers that its deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was the result of an “administrative error” but that the administration lacked the ability to return him now that he is being held by El Salvador.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, told the outlet his client has no criminal record and was falsely accused of being a member of the gang MS-13 following a 2019 incident in which he and several other men were arrested outside a Maryland Home Depot.
Abrego Garcia fled gang violence in El Salvador and arrived in the U.S. in 2011 at the age of 16. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him a “withholding of removal,” a protected status. Abrego Garcia is married to Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, and they are raising three children together, including their 5-year-old son with special needs, per the Associated Press.
