
President Donald Trump’s administration maintains that those that it improperly sent to a prison in El Salvador are themselves responsible for seeking legal relief that could potentially return them to the United States, a position that legal experts say is destined for argument before the Supreme Court.
In the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident whom the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison based on an “administrative error,” the White House has argued that it can't make its partners in El Salvador return the man it sent them.