A US court decided on Friday that the Trump administration must return a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador to the United States within three days, the latest legal setback for the administration’s strict deportation policy.
The United States has previously recognised that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant with a work visa, was mistakenly deported as one of three planeloads of migrants flown out last month due to claimed links to violent gangs.
However, the administration claims it lacks legal authorisation to bring him back to the nation, which Abrego Garcia’s attorneys dispute.
“They put him there, they can bring him back,” Andrew Rossman, lawyer at prominent law firm Quinn Emanuel that joined Abrego Garcia’s legal team on Friday, said in a statement.
After grilling government attorneys, US District Judge Paula Xinis decided during a court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, that the government must take action to return him to the United States by April 7.
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