US judge rules man wrongly deported to El Salvador must be returned

Prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Photo: AP

Mike Scarcella

A US judge ruled yesterday that the Trump administration must return to the United States a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.

He was deported as part of a US agreement with the El Salvadorian government to detain alleged gang members.