US Tells Court It Can’t Locate Man Wrongly Sent to El Salvador

The Trump administration told a federal appeals court it has been unable to locate a man wrongly deported to El Salvador a week after a three-judge panel ordered that he be returned to the US.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York directed the government on June 24 to return Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron “as soon as possible” after officials said he was put on a flight to his native El Salvador on May 7 “due to a confluence of administrative errors.”

Late Tuesday, a Justice Department attorney said in a letter to the court that Melgar-Salmeron’s “current ...