Trump’s deportation ‘mistake’: the man trapped in a prison in El Salvador

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported, detained and flown to a notorious prison - before officials admitted they had made an error. Why is he still there? Maanvi Singh reports

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life.

In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs. A judge agreed and gave him protected status so he could not be deported.