“In that case, DHS would take him into custody in the United States and either remove him to a third country or terminate his withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13.
A designated foreign terrorist organization, and remove him to El Salvador,” Mazarra stated.
The news broke the day after El Salvador’s president announced he would not bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States during a much-anticipated Oval Office visit.
ABC News’ Jay O’Brien was informed Tuesday afternoon by DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin that Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador was due to a “clerical error.”
“He should have been sent to a detention center in Mexico, Nicaragua, Egypt,” McLaughlin stated.
Abrego Garcia, who fled political upheaval in El Salvador in 2011, is a member of the criminal gang MS-13, according to Trump administration officials, although they haven’t offered much proof of this claim in court thus far.
