{"id":29233,"date":"2025-04-13T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29233"},"modified":"2025-04-13T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:40:15","slug":"us-supreme-court-rules-trump-officials-must-facilitate-release-of-man-deported-to-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/13\/us-supreme-court-rules-trump-officials-must-facilitate-release-of-man-deported-to-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court rules Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ release of man deported to El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must try to release a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.<\/b><\/p>\n

In a 9-0 ruling, the justices declined to block a lower court’s order to “facilitate” bringing back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but they also said Judge Paula Xinis may have exceeded her authority.<\/p>\n

On Friday Judge Xinis directed the Trump administration to provide her with daily updates on what steps they are taking to bring Mr Garcia back to the US.<\/p>\n

The government has conceded Mr Garcia was deported due to an “administrative error”, though it also alleges he is a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Garcia, a Salvadoran, is one of dozens of alleged gang member migrants placed by the US on military planes last month and flown to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot (Terrorism Confinement Centre) under an arrangement between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Following the Supreme Court’s order, lawyers for the Trump administration went in front of Judge Xinis of the Maryland district court on Friday to explain how they will release Mr Garcia.<\/p>\n

The judge had asked the government to explain by that morning how they planned to bring Mr Garcia back, but justice department attorneys filed a motion asking for the deadline to be extended until Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

In a two-page filing, government lawyers called her deadlines “impracticable”.<\/p>\n

During an at-times tense hearing that lasted about half an hour, Judge Xinis repeatedly pressed the justice department for specifics on Mr Garcia’s whereabouts.<\/p>\n

“I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “I’m asking a very simple question: where is he?”<\/p>\n

Judge Xinis ultimately ruled that the government must provide her with daily updates on Mr Garcia’s location and status, what efforts it had previously taken to get him back to the US and what efforts it will undertake.<\/p>\n

In court documents, Mr Garcia’s lawyers accused the government of trying to “delay, obfuscate and flout court orders, while a man’s life and safety is at risk”.<\/p>\n

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