Instead, he told the outlet the U.S. Justice Department “decided to do it that way, and that’s fine.”  Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker and father of three from Maryland, was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to his native country.

In an interview with NBC News, the president said it was the Justice Department's decision, not his, to bring the Maryland man back to the U.S.