EXCLUSIVE: Federal Prosecutors Seek to Deport Salvadoran Migrant to Third Country After Illegal Trump-Era Expulsion

The case of Kilmar Ábrego García exposes troubling patterns of federal overreach and the flawed immigration policies carried over from the Trump administration into the current Department of Justice (DOJ). Despite courts ruling his initial deportation illegal, prosecutors now propose sending him not back to El Salvador, but an undisclosed third country once he completes his incarceration in Tennessee. Ábrego García was mistakenly deported in March 2023 under President Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, despite having legal protections that should have shielded him. Following his illegal expulsion, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland presided over efforts by Ábrego’s attorneys...