Police officers stand guard at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, during a media tour, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judgepressed a government lawyer on Wednesday on whether Republican President Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said he could secure the return of wrongly deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia with a phone call to El Salvador's president.
Washington D.C.-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg asked the question of Justice Department lawyer Abhishek Kambli at a hearing in a different case, in which the government is arguing it cannot obtain custody of some 137 Venezuelan migrants being held in a Salvadoran mega-prison after being deported under an 18th-century wartime law.
