In a major setback to the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the return of a Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported in a key immigration case.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, had been living in Maryland before being deported to El Salvador last month. He was among over 200 people sent back as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented migrants.
Most of those deported were suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration has labelled a foreign terrorist group. However, officials later admitted that Abrego Garcia — who is married to a US citizen — was deported by mistake.
The Supreme Court has now ordered the government to help secure his release from custody in El Salvador and to handle his case as if he had never been deported.
Abrego Garcia had been living in the US since 2019 under Protected Legal Status. This led the judge to rule that he shouldn’t be deported because he might face harm in his home country.
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