New Delhi, April 13 -- The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge on Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the US last month is alive and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The government's filing, however, did not address the judge's demands that the administration detail what steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.

The government said only that Abrego Garcia, 29, is under the authority of the El Salvador government.

1. Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order, was mistakenly sent to the Salvadoran prison along with other men who were alleged to be gang members.

2. The Trump administration claimed that Abreg...