When the Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia in March, it violated a U.S. immigration judge’s order in 2019 that barred his expulsion to his native country. The immigration judge had found that Abrego Garcia faced a credible threat from gangs that had terrorized him and his family.

Suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be deported after he’s released from jail in Tennessee, but not to his native El Salvador, according to a federal prosecutor. The Trump administration plans to initiate removal proceedings against Abrego Garcia that would expel him to a “third country,