‘He is alive and secure’: Trump adminration on man who was makenly deported to El Salvador | World News

A Maryland man, who was makenly deported to El Salvador last month, is “alive and secure” and remains confined in a mega prison, the US State Department said in a filing, while refusing to detail what the US government was doing to bring him back.
The US President Donald Trump adminration acknowledged that the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 is under the authority of the El Salvador government and refused to detail what steps it was taking to return Garcia to the United States, even after US Drict Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Justice Department to provide daily updates on his return.
The US Supreme Court had also ruled on Thursday that the Trump adminration must bring back Garcia.
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was makenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The US Drict Judge Xinis also issued an order on Friday requiring the US government to disclose Garcia’s “current physical location and custodial status” and “what steps, if any, Defendants have taken (and) will take, and when, to facilitate” his return.

A filing Michael G. Kozak, senior official in the US State Department, said “It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador,” AP reported.

Kozak’s submission in Columbia’s Drict Court further added “He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”
A report AP, quoting court documents stated, that Garcia has lived in America for about 14 years, worked in construction, got married and was raising three children with disabilities.