Unlawful deportation
Supreme Court whistles Trump back
Updated on April 11th, 2025 – 9:57 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Trump government pushed a man into a mega prison in El Salvador without legal proceedings. Now the Supreme Court judged the procedure.
In the dispute over the deportation of a man from the US state of Maryland in a notorious prison in El Salvador, the US Supreme Court considers its release. The Supreme Court said that a federal judge had asked the government “properly” to “enable” the dismissal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody, and “to” ensure that his case was treated as he would have been treated if it had not been illegally sent to El Salvador.
However, the Supreme US Court of Justice did not set a deadline for the return of the man to the USA and also skeptically expressed a different passage of the decision on the lower authority. In this case, the Federal Supreme Court had also ordered that the government had to “bring about” the man’s return to the United States. The Supreme Court explained that it had to be clarified what exactly was meant by that. The court may have exceeded its powers. The case is not finally decided with the decision of the Supreme Court.
The 29-year-old was flown to El Salvador on March 15 with more than 200 other people, where he was detained in a high-security prison for serious criminals. The US government later admitted that it had been deported due to an “administrative error”.
The Supreme Court then overruled the order of a federal judge on Monday after an urgent application from the US government, according to which Ábrego García should have been brought back to the USA by Monday (local time). In its urgent application, the government had insisted despite the granted error in the deportation that Ábrego García belonged to the Salvadorian criminal gang MS-13 and his deportation was therefore permitted. The federal judge, on the other hand, found that there was no evidence of the 29-year-old’s belonging to the MS-13.
The Supreme Court of the United States now ruled that the judge’s judgment was valid. The man had to be brought back to the USA. Only the deadline was overridden.
