The legacy media is trying to do its best to disrupt the Trump administration in any way it can, and this includes trying to paint its successes as bumbling mistakes, total failures, or all-out lies. 

But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt isn't having it. 

A report from The Atlantic on Monday said the Trump administration "acknowledged in a court filing that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador." 

This was brought up to Leavitt by the press on Tuesday, where she squashed any hopes for the legacy media to finally have something to slam the Trump administration with. 

As Leavitt made clear, this "Maryland father," as the press described him, was a member of the MS-13 domestic terrorist group, has been deported to El Salvador, and will not be returning to America. Whatever "acknowledgement" the Trump administration gave of a deportation error was not an error in the sense that they deported someone who shouldn't have been. 

"First of all, the error you are referred to is a clerical error, it was an administrative error," she said. "The administration maintains the position that this person who will not return to our country was a member of the brutal and vicious MS-13 gang."

Leavitt goes on to say that intelligence gathered on the individual shows he was involved in human trafficking, and moreover, he wasn't just a member of MS-13, he was a leader in it. 

"Foreign terrorists do not have legal protections in the United States of America anymore," said Leavitt, "and it is within the President's executive authority and power to deport these heinous individuals from American communities." 

🔥 WATCH: @PressSec Karoline Leavitt debunks the fake news claim that the Trump administration errantly deported an illegal alien when IN REALITY, he was a MS-13 gang leader tied to human trafficking. pic.twitter.com/Q7Y1ssOexM

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 1, 2025

The story that the Trump administration had deported someone they shouldn't have was spread far and wide before the facts were gathered. CBS News, for instance, echoed the Atlantic in reporting that the Trump administration admitted the "error" in a court filing: 

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director Robert Cerna said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the U.S. on March 15 as part of a series of deportation flights that sent hundreds of alleged gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, even though an immigration judge had granted him a legal protection from deportation.

That immigration judge in question is U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, currently infamous for blocking attempted deportations of the Tren de Aragua gang.

(Activist Nation: Judge Orders Plane Carrying Gangsters Kicked Out by Trump to Turn Around)

Attorneys had made filings on behalf of Garcia to give him a legal status known as "withholding of removal" back in 2019, stating that he could face persecution by gangs in El Salvador if deported there. The "mistake" was reportedly that the Trump administration overlooked this status, but as Leavitt says, it doesn't matter. He's an MS-13 gang leader, and as a foreign domestic terrorist group, he has no legal protections in this country. 

So ultimately, the press has nothing to report, other than Trump is keeping the promises he made to the people who elected him. 

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