The White House reportedly shut down plans to return wrongfully deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. from an infamous El Salvador mega-prison.
Federal attorneys “began discussing how to undo the mistake” and return Garcia, 29, almost immediately after his March 15 deportation, The Atlantic reported on Friday. That included an idea to have the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador make a personal plea to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for Abrego Garcia’s release.
Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security also discussed requesting that Abrego Garcia be separated from inmates associated with the Barrio 18 gang. Abrego Garcia said in his U.S. asylum case that members of the gang threatened him and his family in San Salvador, which is why he fled to the U.S. and entered illegally at 16.
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