The government claims he’s a member of the MS-13 gang, which his wife and attorney deny, and deported him to El Salvador despite a judge’s 2019 order barring him from being sent there.

A Maryland man wrongly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador told a U.S. senator that he was traumatized by the experience.

Senator Chris Van Hollen met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to the central American country, on Thursday.