U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday it was the Department of Justice, not him, that made the decision to bring back to the U.S. a man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was flown back to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants within the U.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia became a poster boy for the Trump administration's immigration policies after courts said he was wrongfully removed from the U.S.