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“Today’s action proves what we’ve known all along – that the administration had the ability to bring him back and just refused to do so,” Ábrego García’s lawyer Andrew Rossman has said in a statement according to the Reuters news agency.
His attorneys are planning a news conference that is set to begin in a moment.
His lawyers have previously argued that he has never been convicted of any criminal offence, including gang membership, in the US or in El Salvador.
His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has also denied he is a MS-13 gang member and described him as “a loving partner and father”.
Although since he was deported it came to light that Sura had filed a protective order petition against him in 2021, alleging that he had physically attacked her on multiple occasions. She said in a later statement that she had decided not to follow through with the court process at the time.