The government claims he’s a member of the MS-13 gang, which his wife and attorney deny, and deported him to El Salvador despite a judge’s 2019 order barring him from being sent there.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump defended the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident mistakenly deported to an El Salvador Prison.

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said on Thursday night that he had met in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man whose wrongful deportation has caused a standoff between President Trump and the courts.