BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A Maryland man who the Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been moved to a new prison, US Senator Chris Van Hollen has said.<\/p>\n The Democratic senator was speaking after returning from El Salvador where he met Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda, who was sent to the notorious mega-jail Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) last month.<\/p>\n Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda was “traumatised” and fearful of other prisoners while inside the facility, Van Hollen said, adding that he was moved to another facility in the country over a week ago.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court has ordered the government to “facilitate” his return, however Trump administration officials have continued to push back against the order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The White House accuses him of being a member of the transnational Salvadoran gang MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organisation, and has said he will not return to the US. <\/p>\n Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda has never been convicted of a crime. His family and attorneys have fiercely denied he is a member of MS-13. <\/p>\n Chris Van Hollen said he was initially blocked from meeting Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda by Salvadoran authorities. Later, he said government officials helped facilitate a meeting and Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda was brought to the senator’s hotel.<\/a><\/p>\n “His conversation with me was the first communication that he had with anybody outside of prison since he was abducted,” Van Hollen said.<\/p>\n “He said he felt very sad about being in a prison because he had not committed any crimes.”<\/p>\n Van Hollen added that conditions in the new prison, in the Salvadoran city of Santa Ana, were better.<\/p>\n “He still has no access to any news from the outside world and no ability to communicate with anybody in the outside world,” Van Hollen said.<\/p>\n Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda’s case is part of a simmering showdown between the Trump administration and the US courts system on the issue of immigration. <\/p>\n A separate feud<\/a> has been brewing after a judge said he could hold the Trump administration in contempt for its “wilful disregard” of his order barring deportation flights. <\/p>\n Multiple judges – including a unanimous US Supreme Court ruling – said the government should facilitate Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda’s return to the US. But the White House has insisted the Maryland man will “never” live in the US again.<\/a><\/p>\n “If he [Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda] ever ends up back in the United States, he would immediately be deported again,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda was “not a very innocent guy”.<\/p>\n Mr \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda has faced at least two other allegations of criminal activity, neither of which resulted in a conviction.<\/p>\n![\"Reuters](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1e29\/live\/354133a0-1cb1-11f0-a455-cf1d5f751d2f.jpg.webp\")
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