The Trump administration recognizes an « error » after the expulsion of a legal resident towards a Salvador prison – Liberation

The migration policy of the American tribune again under the fire of criticism. A Salvadoran legally living in the United States, Maryland was expelled to his native and imprisoned country on March 15 due to a « Administrative error », Trump administration officials recognized on Monday March 31 in a judicial document on Monday. The man, by the name of Abrego Garcia, nevertheless had a protected legal status since October 2019, and lived with his 5 -year -old wife and child, both American citizens. The lawyers of the American executive power say they cannot obtain its release, the Salvadoran no longer being on American territory.

According to information from New York TimesAbrego Garcia was arrested by immigration agents on March 12, wrongly announcing a change in status. The latter has a « Rejoited to expulsion », A status with paradoxical rules: even if he is well subject to an obligation to leave American territory, he was authorized to remain there because of the risks he faces in his country of origin. He obtained it in 2019, after being accused of being part of a mafia group. Abrego Garcia was finally bleached by the American justice.

Regardless for state services: three days later, man is placed on one of the three flights to the Salvador. If two of the planes took off under the law, the third – the one on board the abrego Garcia – was supposed to transport only migrants with an official expulsion order signed by a judge, according to the New York Times. Which was not the case with Salvadoran. Man is now detained in the gigantic center for confinement of terrorism, A Salvadorian mega-prison known as Cecotcornerstone of a particularly repressive system.

This involuntary expulsion is the last twist of the immigration policy launched by Donald Trump since his return to the White House. At the time of the dismissal of Abrego Garcia to Salvador, the Trump administration has hastily intensified its expulsion efforts by exhuming a law of 1798 rarely invokedknown as Alien Enemies Act, in order to to chase dozens of Venezuelan immigrants accused of being members of the street gang baptized Tren of Aragua. Undocumented immigrants are also targeted by the executive power, accused of being criminals affiliated with gangs of criminals.

But defense movements of undocumented, Democrats and now even defenders of the Republican President believe that the thread attacks people unrelated to organized crime. Other cases potentially similar to that of Abrego Garcia have been raised by the American press, lawyers claiming that their customers were only targeted because of their tattoosan often distinctive sign of central America mafias.

Host Joe Rogan, who had supported his highly listened to Donald Trump podcast at the end of the electoral campaign last year, alarmed the expulsion of a homosexual hairdresser. « We can only be frightened to see that people who are not criminals are caught in the trap and expelled towards prisons in Salvador », he said on Saturday. “Let’s get gangsters, everyone agrees. But let’s not let innocent gay hairdressers embark with the gangs ”, he argued. US vice-president JD Vance assured his side that Greo Garcia was indeed a member of the Salvadorian mafia MS-13. « The media have decided that the real victims are the gangsters that we are trying to expel the country, » he wrote on social networks.

During a press briefing at the White House on Tuesday, Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for Donald Trumpalso defended the expulsion of the Salvadoran, declaring to journalists that the government had proof that he was a sentenced member of the Salvadoral Street Gang MS-13, although he was never tried in this direction.

The woman and the relatives of Abrego Garcia tried to have him repatriate, by intending a civil action on his behalf against the Trump administration. They asked the United States government to suspend its payments in Salvador to ask, in return, the return of the Salvadoran to the United States. But in the judicial file consulted by the New York Timesthe executive refused this request, claiming that the American courts did not have jurisdiction to order such actions. And that even if the situation of Abrego Garcia is « difficult », It should not hinder Donald Trump’s delusional migration policy.