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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Salvadoran man in error.

The administration is refusing to bring him back, and this particular case has extremely dark implications that are going to continue reverberating. J.D. Vance addressed this on Twitter, and he face-planted

in a spectacular way that would have been funny if it weren't so repulsive. He claimed that the man

was a convicted MS-13 member, even though that's a severe distortion.

And the broader story here is that Vance and Trump are perfectly fine with, quote, unquote, accidentally removing people,

because they want immigrants to be afraid that they're going to be next.

Today we're talking about this with one of our favorite observers

of immigration issues, longtime veteran advocate, Douglas Rivlin. Doug, it's great to have you on

again, man. Hey, Greg, good to see you. So the deported man, Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia, is a Salvadoran

who was removed to El Salvador along with dozens of others. He was sent to

that prison for terrorists that was all over the news recently. He's the father of an autistic child

who lives in Maryland and his wife is a U.S. citizen. The government had tried to remove him to El Salvador in

2019, but he was actually granted a form of status called

withholding from removal based on the fact that he'd face serious harm if you were sent back.

Doug, can you give us the rundown here?

So in 2019, the judge, according to the reporting, said, don't deport this guy back to El Salvador.

And according to the reporting, that's what they, in fact, did this a week or two ago.

He had protection from deportation.

He was going through all of his check-ins.

He's got deep ties to his community. And at least according to all the

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