Trump officials won’t share evidence accusing Maryland father of ‘human trafficking’

To hear officials in Donald Trump’s administration tell it, a Salvadoran father in Maryland they admitted was wrongfully deported to a brutal prison in his home country is “involved in human trafficking.”But government lawyers have not raised any such claims in court, and the allegations appear to have been first introduced publicly during a White House press conference.Administration officials claim they have reviewed intelligence linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia with human and labor trafficking, which his attorneys and family have flatly denied.Officials also have refused to share any of those reports or any other evidence supporting their claims.“We’re not going to give out our national security documents every time a terrorist denies they are a terrorist,” Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin told ABC News on April 15. “That would be insane.”Asked for a snapshot of any such evidence, a Homeland Security spokesperson directed The Independent to McLaughlin’s comments t...