President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador in 2011, when he was 16. He has testified that his family was fleeing extortion attempts and efforts to recruit him into that nation’s violent gangs. The Maryland resident is married to a U.S. citizen and the father or stepfather to three special-needs children.

Despite the fact that an immigration judge in 2019 granted him “withholding of removal” status — a sort of enhanced asylum status given to those who face a high likelihood of reprisal if they are deported to their former country — he was last month scooped up and deported by ICE, apparently based on a single dubious allegation that he is a member of MS-13, which he has consistently denied. Although he has never been charged with a crime outside of illegal entry to........

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