How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

At each stage in the political and legal fight over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation, the Trump administration has pushed back harder and dug in deeper. Now the president and his advisers maintain, almost daily, that Abrego Garcia will never touch American soil again. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally when he was 16 years old, was one of 23 Salvadorans deported on March 15. Only a few days earlier, government attorneys had discussed how to keep Abrego Garcia safe until they could bring him back. “We remain focused on bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia home,” he told me in a text message.