U.S. State Department reveals status of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge that the Maryland man mistakenly deported last month is "alive and secure" but remains confined in a notorious El Salvador prison.
The filing by the U.S. State Department, however, did not address the judge's demands that the administration detail what steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.
"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," Michael G. Kozak, a senior State Department official, said in the filing submitted minutes after a 5 p.m. deadline set by the judge. "He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."
