The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.
This is playing out as Democrats double down on their defense of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who was living in Maryland and was mistakenly deported and imprisoned without communication.
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