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Donald Trump’s hardline immigrant policy faced fresh scrutiny Tuesday after officials admitted an “administrative error” in the hurried deportation process had sent a man to a notorious El Salvador prison.<\/p>\n
The president’s administration is pursuing a sweeping drive against migrants — a key campaign promise — touting the move as a crackdown on gang members and other violent criminals.<\/p>\n
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But mounting claims that a number of individuals have flimsy or no connection to organized crime has prompted anger among rights groups, Democrats and even some Trump allies, including the influential podcaster Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n
A court filing Monday said a Salvadoran man was living in the United States under protected legal status until he was flown to El Salvador with hundreds of other alleged gang members earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in 2019 but not convicted of any crime, and a judge ordered he should not be deported because he could be harmed in El Salvador.<\/p>\n
In Monday’s court filing, government lawyers admitted he had been deported in March in an “administrative error,” adding that US courts did not now have jurisdiction to secure his release.<\/p>\n
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A separate reported case of a gay barber being deported has attracted US media attention, and attorneys for several deportees say their clients were targeted only because of their tattoos.<\/p>\n
Rogan said Saturday it was “horrific” that innocent people could be swept up in the push to deport gang members.<\/p>\n
“You got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Let’s get the gang members out. Everybody agrees. But let’s not (see) innocent gay hairdressers get lumped up with the gangs.”<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance on social media claimed that Garcia was a member of violent Salvadoran criminal gang MS-13.<\/p>\n
“The media has determined the real victims are the gang members we’re trying to get out of the country,” he said.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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