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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks order to return migrant deported to El Salvador in error
By Reuters
April 7, 202511:06 PM EDTUpdated 13 hours ago
- Summary
- Salvadoran migrant Abrego Garcia was deported on March 15
- Appeals court had declined to block order for his return
- Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland legally with a work permit
April 7 (Reuters) - The
U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted on Monday a judge's order requiring President
Donald Trump's administration to return by the end of the day a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.
Chief Justice John Roberts, acting on behalf of the court, paused the order by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis that the administration return Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the end of Monday, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man and his family challenging the legality of his deportation.
The court's action, called an administrative stay, gives the nine justices additional time to consider the administration's more formal request to block the judge's order while litigation in the case continues. Earlier on Monday, the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration's request to freeze the judge's order.
Xinis found that the U.S. government had no lawful authority to detain and deport Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in Maryland legally with a work permit, and
ordered his return by 11:59 p.m. on Monday. Abrego Garcia was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile deportation flights to El Salvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The Justice Department in a Supreme Court filing on Monday stated that while Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador through "administrative error," his actual removal from the
United States "was not error." The error, department lawyers wrote, was in removing him specifically to El Salvador despite a deportation protection order he received in 2019.
Justice Department lawyers said that Abrego Garcia, as an alleged member of the criminal gang MS-13, is no longer eligible for that protection. Trump's administration has designated MS-13 a foreign terrorist organization.
There are no pending charges against Abrego Garcia, who is married to an American citizen with whom he is raising a U.S. citizen child, in addition to his wife's two children from a prior relationship. Abrego Garcia's lawyers have denied the allegation that he is part of a gang.
Abrego Garcia received a 2019 judgment in the United States granting him protection from deportation to El Salvador after an immigration judge determined he would face persecution from gangs in his home country if returned.
Abrego Garcia's lawyers said in a Supreme Court filing on Monday that there is "no evidence in the record of this case supporting the government's contention that it cannot bring him back."
"Abrego Garcia has never been charged with a crime, in any country. He is not wanted by the government of El Salvador. He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake," his lawyers wrote.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...deported-maryland-man-el-salvador-2025-04-07/
