CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale is debunking the “nonsense” from White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, who refused to admit earlier this week that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a prison in El Salvador on March 15 due to an administrative error.

Despite President Donald Trump’s own Justice Department confirming in a federal court filing that the Salvadoran father of three was sent to a brutal prison there due to a clerical mistake, Miller appeared Monday on Fox News to baselessly claim otherwise.

“A DOJ lawyer, who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing, incorrectly, that this was a mistaken removal,” he said, later adding that Garcia was “the right person sent to the right place.”

“Mr. Miller’s suggestion that some lefty saboteur at DOJ is the reason people are calling this deportation a mistake is just wrong,” Dale told CNN anchor Pamela Brown Tuesday. “Various Trump administration officials have also called it a mistake. So here are the facts.”

Dale explained that Garcia had been under a 2019 court order specifically stating he could not be sent back to El Salvador due to a “credible fear” of violent gang retribution there.

He then acknowledged that there was a DOJ attorney who disapproved of the deportation in court, but that they were “quickly put on leave” by the Trump administration for doing so.

“But he wasn’t going rogue in saying that,” added Dale about the attorney. “ICE and DOJ officials have told the courts at least three other times that sending Mr. Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was an error.”

The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration last week to help bring Garcia back to the U.S., but during a White House visit Monday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele told reporters he has no intention of helping return Garcia — whom he called a “terrorist.”

Trump snapped at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for asking why he’s defying the Supreme Court.

Dale cited a March court filing in which ICE’s acting Field Office Director Robert Cerna called the deportation “an oversight” and “administrative error.” He also pointed to Trump’s own DOJ lawyers confirming as much to an appeals court earlier this month.

The fact-checker then cited a statement made days later by the U.S. solicitor general himself. The position is appointed by the sitting president and is the fourth-highest rank within the Department of Justice.

“Solicitor General John Sauer, the Trump-appointed lawyer who represents the administration at the Supreme Court — so a top lawyer — told the Supreme Court, ‘The United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error,’” said Dale.

“So, Mr. Miller pinning the idea that this was an error on one sneaky Democratic plant at the Justice Department is nonsense,” he concluded.

Watch Dale’s full analysis below: