As it stands, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's story begins and ends in his native El Salvador. When he was a boy, a local gang extorted his family, tried to indoctrinate him and threatened to kill him, according to his immigration case.

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case.

The court placed limits on how deportations may occur, emphasizing that judicial review is required. Detainees must be notified that they are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.” This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance.

The Trump administration argued that a federal judge couldn’t force the government to remedy the mistake.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian protection.

The Supreme Court has blocked an order to return a man administration officials acknowledge was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

Like many of the Trump administration’s most controversial actions, the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is not just a bureaucratic blunder — it was a brazen affront to the rule of law. Despite a binding immigration court order protecting him from removal due to the likelihood of torture in El Salvador,