Trump asks US Supreme Court to pause order to return man deported to El Salvador in error

US President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily halt a judge’s order requiring his administration to return by the end of the day a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was erroneously deported to El Salvador.

US District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ordered the administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the end of Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by the man and his family.

A lower federal appeal court, the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, declined on Monday to freeze the judge’s order.

Xinis found that the US 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 11.59pm on Monday. He 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 its Supreme Court filing 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.

Lawyers for the Justice Department 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 organisation.

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