Lawyers for wrongly deported Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia , who was sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador earlier this year despite having protected status to stay in the U.S., have accused the Trump administration of lying to a federal judge over the man's recent efforts to self-deport to Costa Rica.

"Recent developments" in a separate case — specifically, the deportation effort filed against Abrego Garcia in Maryland — "make crystal clear that the government is willing to mislead the courts and defy court orders intended to shed light on its conduct, all in service of punishing Mr. Abrego," according to the Sunday filing before U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee . As Law&Crime has previously reported, Abrego Garcia was charged with human smuggling

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