The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene Monday and block a lower-court order mandating the return of an immigrant mistakenly deported to El Salvador in a high-profile challenge to the administration’s immigration crackdown.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and his family filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court, arguing that the removal violated an immigration judge’s 2019 order that he not be deported to El Salvador due to possible persecution. Abrego Garcia has never been charged with or convicted of a crime, the family argued, and was deported illegally.
The Trump administration sent Abrego Garcia to a high-security Salvadorian prison known as CECOT last month, as part of an agreement where the U.S. pays the Salvadorian government to imprison deportees.
