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He shouldn’t be in a prison in El Salvador, but he also never should have escaped deportation for so long.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia shouldn’t be in a prison in El Salvador, but he also never should have been in the United States or given relief from deportation.
The White House is trying to make the alleged MS-13 gang member a symbol of illegal-immigrant crime, while Trump’s opposition is seeking to make “the Maryland man” a symbol of the administration’s disregard for due process.
What has gotten less attention is that his case is an example of the self-defeating absurdities of our immigration system and, in particular, of how it hands out “humanitarian protection.”