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Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Man Wrongly Deported by US Has Been Found in El Salvador Prison
The US government said Wednesday it has located a man wrongly deported to El Salvador and whose whereabouts were previously unknown, adding that he is being held in the country's CECOT maximum-security prison. Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron was put on a flight May 7 to his native El Salvador 30 minutes after a New York appeals court issued an order blocking his removal, which the government later said was 'due to a confluence of administrative errors.' On June 24, the court ordered the Trump administration to return him to the US 'as soon as possible.'
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Man wrongfully deported to El Salvador must be returned to US, court rules
An appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to return a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador to the US and to explain how it is complying in a ruling apparently designed to break a pattern of apparent government defiance of judicial orders. The US court of appeals for the second circuit in New York also required the government to provide a declaration of the current whereabouts and custodial status of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported on 7 May less than half an hour after the court had expressly barred his removal. Tuesday's order seemed intended to forestall a repeat of the long saga surrounding the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, who was deported to his native El Salvador in March, in violation of a 2019 immigration court order preventing his repatriation there on grounds of possible persecution. Ábrego García remained in custody in El Salvador's sprawling Cecot terrorism confinement facility for weeks while administration officials claimed they were unable to comply with a court order to facilitate his return. He was eventually returned to the US this month after the government secured a federal indictment accusing him of being a co-conspirator in a people-smuggling ring. Melgar-Salmeron, 31, a married father of four who lives in Virginia, is believed by relatives to be in custody in a high-security prison after he was deported despite the government having given the appeals court an 'express assurance' that it would not schedule a deportation flight for him until the following day while his case was heard. In the event, Melgar-Salmeron left on a flight for El Salvador 28 minutes after the order was issued. A court filing for the government blamed 'a confluence of administrative errors'. In addition to ordering the government to facilitate his return, Tuesday's order also gave officials a week to file a 'supplemental declaration from an individual with personal knowledge, addressing … the current physical location and custodial status of Petitioner; and … what steps the government will take, and when, to facilitate his return to the United States'. The court denied an application by Melgar-Salmeron's lawyers for the appointment of a special master for the case, saying that the government counsel who had given assurance that he would not be removed 'took reasonable and diligent steps to ensure removal would not occur in violation of that assurance'. Related: Trump drives surge in Ice detentions of those with no criminal record despite stated priorities In a previous filing, the government detailed a series of communications lapses between an Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (Ice) office in Buffalo, New York, where his case was being monitored, and another in Louisiana, where he was being held. Melgar-Salmeron was previously affiliated with the MS-13 street gang but, according to his lawyer, has since renounced his connection. He also served two years in jail for illegal possession of an unregistered sawn-off shotgun before he was placed in immigration detention, according to the New York Times. His is one of four cases, along with that of Ábrego-García, of people being removed in breach of court orders. Also among the four is Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, who was deported along with about 240 other men from Venezuela and taken to the Cecot facility after US authorities declared them to be members of Tren de Aragua. A Maryland court later ruled that he had been improperly removed in violation of an earlier settlement forbidding his removal while his immigration case was pending. The fourth case is that of a Guatemalan immigrant identified only as 'OCG', who was deported to Mexico, despite claiming to have been raped and kidnapped in that country.
CNN
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Court orders Trump administration to return another wrongly deported man
A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to 'facilitate' the return of a Salvadoran man deported last month to his native country just minutes after the same court ruled he shouldn't be removed from the US. An order issued by judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stated the government must facilitate the return of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, 31, 'as soon as possible.' Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported in May, is at least the fourth individual to have been wrongly removed from the US, despite court rulings or protected status, amid the administration's vast deportation efforts. Tuesday's order noted that a stay of removal for Melgar-Salmeron was issued on May 7 at 9:52 a.m. but that a flight carrying him to El Salvador departed approximately 30 minutes later. 'The Government represents that Petitioner was removed that day due to 'a confluence of administrative errors,'' the order read, pointing to the government's acknowledgment in earlier court documents that a 'perfect storm of errors occurred to allow for Petitioner's untimely, and inadvertent, removal, despite the Government's assurance and the eventual stay order.' The judges also stated the government must file within a week a supplemental declaration addressing Melgar-Salmeron's current physical location and custodial status and include what steps the government will take, 'and when, to facilitate his return to the United States.' Melgar-Salmeron's case comes weeks after another wrongly deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was returned to the US after being removed to El Salvador despite a 2019 court order barring his removal. Abrego Garcia, who faces a federal indictment for smuggling undocumented migrants across state lines in 2022, has been described as a vessel for the Justice Department's hardball approach to immigration enforcement. He has pleaded not guilty to taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. In Tuesday's order, the court denied a request by Melgar-Salmeron's lawyers to appoint a special master to investigate authorities and officials involved in the wrongful deportation.
CNN
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Court orders Trump administration to return another wrongly deported man
A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to 'facilitate' the return of a Salvadoran man deported last month to his native country just minutes after the same court ruled he shouldn't be removed from the US. An order issued by judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stated the government must facilitate the return of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, 31, 'as soon as possible.' Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported in May, is at least the fourth individual to have been wrongly removed from the US, despite court rulings or protected status, amid the administration's vast deportation efforts. Tuesday's order noted that a stay of removal for Melgar-Salmeron was issued on May 7 at 9:52 a.m. but that a flight carrying him to El Salvador departed approximately 30 minutes later. 'The Government represents that Petitioner was removed that day due to 'a confluence of administrative errors,'' the order read, pointing to the government's acknowledgment in earlier court documents that a 'perfect storm of errors occurred to allow for Petitioner's untimely, and inadvertent, removal, despite the Government's assurance and the eventual stay order.' The judges also stated the government must file within a week a supplemental declaration addressing Melgar-Salmeron's current physical location and custodial status and include what steps the government will take, 'and when, to facilitate his return to the United States.' Melgar-Salmeron's case comes weeks after another wrongly deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was returned to the US after being removed to El Salvador despite a 2019 court order barring his removal. Abrego Garcia, who faces a federal indictment for smuggling undocumented migrants across state lines in 2022, has been described as a vessel for the Justice Department's hardball approach to immigration enforcement. He has pleaded not guilty to taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. In Tuesday's order, the court denied a request by Melgar-Salmeron's lawyers to appoint a special master to investigate authorities and officials involved in the wrongful deportation.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Court orders Trump administration to return another wrongly deported man
A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to 'facilitate' the return of a Salvadoran man deported last month to his native country just minutes after the same court ruled he shouldn't be removed from the US. An order issued by judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stated the government must facilitate the return of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, 31, 'as soon as possible.' Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported in May, is at least the fourth individual to have been wrongly removed from the US, despite court rulings or protected status, amid the administration's vast deportation efforts. Tuesday's order noted that a stay of removal for Melgar-Salmeron was issued on May 7 at 9:52 a.m. but that a flight carrying him to El Salvador departed approximately 30 minutes later. 'The Government represents that Petitioner was removed that day due to 'a confluence of administrative errors,'' the order read, pointing to the government's acknowledgment in earlier court documents that a 'perfect storm of errors occurred to allow for Petitioner's untimely, and inadvertent, removal, despite the Government's assurance and the eventual stay order.' The judges also stated the government must file within a week a supplemental declaration addressing Melgar-Salmeron's current physical location and custodial status and include what steps the government will take, 'and when, to facilitate his return to the United States.' Melgar-Salmeron's case comes weeks after another wrongly deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was returned to the US after being removed to El Salvador despite a 2019 court order barring his removal. Abrego Garcia, who faces a federal indictment for smuggling undocumented migrants across state lines in 2022, has been described as a vessel for the Justice Department's hardball approach to immigration enforcement. He has pleaded not guilty to taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. In Tuesday's order, the court denied a request by Melgar-Salmeron's lawyers to appoint a special master to investigate authorities and officials involved in the wrongful deportation.
