The Department of Justice on Friday claimed the location of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland- based Salvadoran immigrant incorrectly deported to an El Salvador megaprison with thousands of offenders and gang participants last month, are unidentified.
The admission follows the Supreme Court maintained a reduced government court’s choice Thursday to help with Garcia’s return from the Central American jail. It likewise follows united state District Judge Paula Xinis bought the DOJ to send even more details concerning Garcia adhering to the SCOTUS judgment.
Xinis on Thursday night bought the DOJ to submit the adhering to details no behind 9:30 a.m. on Friday: “(1) the current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia; (2) what steps, if any, Defendants have taken to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s immediate return to the United States; and (3) what additional steps Defendants will take, and when, to facilitate his return.”
Later on Friday, she requested day-to-day updates concerning Abrego Garcia’s area and what the federal government is doing to promote his return.
DOJ authorities and AbregoGarcia’s lawyers had a hearing in government court on Friday mid-day, whereupon Judge Xinis repetitively asked DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign concerning Garcia’s location.
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This undated image supplied by Murray Osorio PLLC programsKilmar Abrego Garcia (Murray Osorio PLLC by means of AP)
“Where is he and under whose authority?” Xinis claimed in court Friday.
“I do not have that information,” Ensign reacted, including that Abrego Garcia is presently in the wardship of Salvadoran authorities which authorities did not offer verification of his location before the Friday hearing.
“I’m not asking for state secrets. I’m asking where one man is.”
“I’m not asking for state secrets. I’m asking where one man is,” Xinis claimed. “The government was prohibited from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question: Where is he?”
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“I do not have that information,” Ensign claimed.
In this undated image supplied by the united state District Court for the District of Maryland, a male recognized by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her other half, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is led forcibly by guards via the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca,El Salvador (UNITED STATE District Court for the District of Maryland by means of AP) ( UNITED STATE District Court for the District of Maryland by means of AP)
“I am asking a very simple question. Where is he?” Xinis duplicated
“I do not have any information,”Ensign reiterated. “I do not have plaintiffs’ assertion that he is in El Salvador under the control of that government. The government has not submitted any evidence that would be contrary to that.”
“There’s no evidence as to where he is today. And that is extremely troubling.”
Xinis better asked if the federal government had actually done anything to help with Abrego Garcia’s go back to the United States, to which Ensign reacted it was “unclear” if they had.
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“That means they haven’t done anything,” Xinis claimed. “Despite this court’s directive, your clients have done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Garcia. To say to me that you don’t have personal knowledge means that you don’t have effective contact with your clients.”
Justice Department lawyers on Friday claimed they are uninformed of Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location after he was deported to a Salvadoran jail last month. (Fox News)
Ensign claimed the federal government is “evaluating what can be shared and is not yet prepared to resolve that question.”
The 2 went back and forth repetitively concerning the information of Abrego Garcia’s situation.
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Xinis claimed it is “quite clear the government is playing a game with their own lawyers.”
The DOJ likewise sent a written reaction in the government situation Friday specifying that “[d]efendants are unable to provide the information requested by the Court on the impracticable deadline set by the Court hours after the Supreme Court issued its order.”
A warder transfers refugees from the united state to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Sunday. (El Salvador governmental press workplace by means of AP)
“The Supreme Court’s order directs the Court to ‘clarify its directive…’ The Court has not yet clarified what it means to ‘facilitate’ or ‘effectuate’ the return as it relates to this case, as Plaintiff is in the custody of a foreign sovereign,” DOJ legal representatives created. “Defendants request— and require—the opportunity to brief that issue prior to being subject to any compliance deadlines. Needless to say, Defendants were under no obligation to take action under the court’s order while it was administratively stayed by the Chief Justice of the United States.”
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DOJ lawyers included that the government court did not offer an adequate quantity of time to “review the Supreme Court’s Order following the dissolution of the administrative stay in this case.”
“Defendants are not in a position where they ‘can’ share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality.”
They additional specified in the court declaring that the DOJ accuseds are evaluating SCOTUS order and “actively evaluating next steps.”
A jail policeman guards a cell at optimal safety and security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4, 2025, in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. ( (Photo by Alex Pe ña/Getty Images))
“It is unreasonable and impracticable for Defendants to reveal potential steps before those steps are reviewed, agreed upon, and vetted. Foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines, in part because it involves sensitive country-specific considerations wholly inappropriate for judicial review,” Ensign and various other DOJ lawyers created.
Federal court filings revealed Abrego Garcia had actually gotten away El Salvador to run away gang physical violence. Starting around 2006, gang participants “stalked, hit, and threatened to kidnap and kill him in order to coerce his parents to succumb to their increasing demands for extortion.”
He went into the United States unlawfully in 2011 and took a trip to Maryland, where his older sibling, a united state person, lived.
Around 2016, Abrego Garcia came to be passionately included with a women united state person– Jennifer Vasquez Sura– and her 2 kids, likewise united state people. They relocated with each other and the lady conceived with his youngster. Abrego Garcia operated in the building and construction sector to sustain his household, court filings state.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the better half of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, that was incorrectly deported to El Salvador, talks throughout a press conference at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
On March 28, 2019, Abrego Garcia mosted likely to a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland, to obtain work and was hired by 3 various other males. Prince George County Police Department quickly reached the scene and apprehended all 4 males.
At the police headquarters, the 4 boys were put right into various areas and examined. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was asked if he was a gang participant; when he informed authorities he was not, they claimed that they did not think him and repetitively required that he offer details concerning various other gang participants,” court documents state. “The authorities informed Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that he would certainly be launched if he coordinated, however he repetitively clarified that he did not have any type of details to offer due to the fact that he did not understand anything.”
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A judge later granted his release, and Abrego Garcia married his now-wife in 2019. He did, however, miss the birth of his child while in federal custody, the federal complaint says.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on March 12 after he worked a shift as a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore and picked up his now-5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother’s house, the complaint says.
