What’s worse than admitting a potentially deadly deportation mistake? Laughing it off.

You already know that Trump and his folks never own up mistakes. That ought to tell you the magnitude of admitting in court that the administration erroneously sent a man to El Salvador prison hell.

“This removal was an error,” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official wrote in a statement to a federal judge about deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia under the Alien Enemies Act invoked by Trump.

Abrego Garcia, who lived in Maryland under protective immigration status, was on one of three flights to El Salvador in mid-March, using rarely invoked war powers.

Federal Judge James Boasberg stopped further deportations under the Alien Enemies Act pending review, which unleashed Trump’s fury. The president called for the

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