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The Wall Street Journal |
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the White House has intelligence showing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was involved in human trafficking and alleged he was a ‘leader’ in MS-13.
U.S. News & World Report |
Twenty-seven of the Venezuelans whose cases Reuters reviewed were never ordered deported.
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The White House admits a "clerical error" was to blame for mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison. Still, it asserts the man was an MS-13 gang member and will not be allowed to return to the U.S.
President Donald Trump is set to host El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in Washington next month, according to Bukele’s office, after the Central American leader agreed to jail hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the US.
The Trump administration on Monday invoked a "state secrets privilege" and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law -- a case that has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension with the federal courts.