India, April 13 -- Trump administration officials confirmed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is 'alive and secure' in prison. This comes after a federal judge demanded that the government 'facilitate' Garcia's return to the United States and detail what steps it was taking.

"It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador," Michael G Kozak, a senior State Department official, said in the filing submitted minutes after a 5 PM deadline set by the jud...