Tensions are roiling across the nation over the apparently mistaken deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador and the Trump administration's refusal to bring him back to the United States, despite multiple court orders.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia last month and included him in a deportation flight to his native El Salvador due to an admitted "administrative error." A federal district judge ruled April 4 that his deportation was "wholly lawless" and ordered the government to "facilitate" his release from a notorious mega prison in the Central American country and return to the U.S. The Supreme Court largely affirmed that ruling 9-0 last week, but the Trump administration has used some ambiguity present in the opinion to argue that it only has to clear any domestic obstacles to Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S.
