Busted: Trump admin eyed fabricating MS-13 'leader' label to justify wrongful deportation

Officials in the Trump administration debated fabricating a claim that wrongly-deported Maryland family man Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a "leader" in the transnational MS-13 criminal gang to justify his continued incarceration in the infamous Salvadoran CECOT megaprison outside the United States, reported The New York Times on Wednesday.

This, reported Hamed Aleaziz and Alan Feuer, came in spite of the fact that federal officials already knew he had been deported in error and in violation of a court order.