The Department of Justice has released a document in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador. The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 and recently included an allegation,

Later in 2019, a U.S. immigration judge shielded Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador because he likely faced persecution there by local gangs that had terrorized his family. The Trump administration deported him there anyway, later describing the mistake as “an administrative error” but insisting he was in MS-13.