The White House admits a "clerical error" was to blame for mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.

The White House said Tuesday Abrego Garcia would not be returning to the U.S., despite an ICE official admitting to a judge a day earlier that his deportation to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center was an “oversight.

The Trump administration has come under fire for allegedly arresting and deporting immigrants who were not criminals, as the White House has claimed was the intent of its mass round-up operation. In the wake of a judge’s determination that federal immigration officers wrongly deported Maryland resident Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia,