WASHINGTON

Some 13 years ago, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, then 16, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The Salvadoran citizen did not have a run-in with the law until 2019, when he was first taken into ICE custody. Later, he was released. After President Donald Trump re-took the Oval Office, Abrego Garcia was ordered deported.

You probably first learned of Abrego Garcia as the “Maryland man” who was “wrongly deported,” as per The New York Times. The “wrongly deported” reference concerned his deportation to El Salvador, the one country he couldn’t be sent to, a judge had stipulated. Not the deportation itself.

So it was an admitted “administrative error” — which my profession has been happy to misrepresent. In accordance with a judge’s reasoning, the Trump administration returned Abrego

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