Trump officials' debate about Abrego Garcia's deportation

A mistake had been made. That was clear.

The Trump government had deported a man from Maryland named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, although a judge had made a decision that expressly prohibited this.

But when the news reached the Ministry of Homeland Security, she triggered a Daylong sccramble and collided with the officials in three different agencies, how to deal with what everyone knew, a mistake. When it became clear that it was not an option to keep it calm, DHS officials floated a number of ideas to control the history that the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice triggered the Alarme case.

In the days in front of the government, DHS officials discussed Mr. Abrego Garcia as a “leader” of the violent street gang MS-13, although they could not find any evidence of supporting the claim. They took into account paths to raise the original order that his deportation on El Salvador carried out. They tried to downplay the risk of which he was exposed to in one of the most notorious prisons in this country.

And in the end, a lawyer of the high -ranking Ministry of Justice, Erez Reuveni, who advised to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia back to the United States, was a failure for what General Prosecutor Pam Bondi said “on behalf of the United States”.

Documents received by the New York Times and determine the debate among the leading lawyers in the state, judicial and home protection departments reveal new details of the early efforts by the government to develop a strategy for a case that has become an important test for the mass shift by President Trump.

The discussions do not record any discussions about the case in the White House or at the level of the responsible cabinet secretaries. However, the documents show how Trump officers tried from the start to keep Mr. Abrego Garcia outside the reach of the American judicial system.