All the effort could have been easily avoided if they did it right the first time
Sure could, but they aren't omniscient. The guy becoming a national news story brought all his criminal past into the path of an investigation.
What are the screwups in this story?
A judge halted a deportation to El Salvador on the basis that an MS13 member could face retribution from a rival gang... after murdering a rival gang member's mother. Absolutely insane, even if the judge just thought it was for being in a rival gang, that's already fucked logic.
The order wasn't lifted in a timely fashion even when El Salvador became a safer country than the USA, nor retroactively when he got deported and it should have been moot.
He was deported in error. A pretty minor mistake, considering that the correct process would have been to lift the moot order, then deport him.
Democrats rallied around an MS13 gang member despite all kinds of public evidence he was a hardened MS13 criminal, including it being right on his knuckles in code.
Trump mistakenly thought a picture of his knuckles had the decoded text as real tattoos by misreading the image, whoopdeedoo.
The DoJ found out the guy was actually a prolific trafficker, rapist, murderer, child sex fiend, etc. Except its not really a fuck-up because they had no way to know, and he was safely detained in El Salvador, and they extradited and charged him now they have all the evidence of his lifetime in criminal enterprise.
Democrats
continue to rally around this guy even when he's outed as being a living index of the criminal codes <---- you are here
Sen Van Hollen celebrated his return and said garcia is 'owed an apology'. Rep Ivey championed him as 'wrongfully imprisoned' and a 'critical conversation'.