The US military sued Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua and members of the MS-13 gang, and was recently deported by the US government and obtained this handout image on March 31, 2025, as part of an agreement with El Salvador’s San Luis Talpa as part of an agreement with El Salvador’s San Luis Talpa.
Secretaria de Prensa de la presidencia | Via Reuters
The Trump administration confirmed Saturday to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month remains trapped in an infamous prison in El Salvador.
However, the government’s submission did not address the judge’s request to detail what steps the administration had taken to bring Kilmer Abrego Garcia back to the United States. The government has said only that Garcia is under the authority of the Salvador government.
The confirmation of the administration’s Garcia location was confirmed to the court by Michael G. Kozak. Michael G. Kozak confirmed that he submitted as a “senior branch official” at the State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau.
The application comes the day after a US government lawyer struggled at the hearing and struggled at the hearing to provide information about Garcia’s whereabouts to the US district judge. Xinis requested that the administration disclose Garcia’s “current physical location and management status” after the hearing Friday, and issued “what steps should be taken, if any, to promote “his return.”
“My understanding based on the official report from the San Salvador embassy is that Abrego Garcia is currently being held at the Terrorist Confinement Centre in El Salvador,” the Kozak statement said. “He lives in the facility and is safe. He is detained in accordance with the sovereignty of the national authorities of El Salvador.”
Kozak’s statement did not address the latter requirement of the judge.
Sinis got mad on Friday due to lack of information from the government.
“Where is he and whose authority is he?” the judge asked at the hearing. “I’m not asking for state secrets. All I know is that he’s not here. The government was forbidden from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question.
