President Donald Trump's administration claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member who should stay in an El Salvador prison.

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.

Erez Reuveni conceded to Xinis that Abrego Garcia should not have been removed from the U.S. or sent to El Salvador.

A federal judge called the deportation of a Maryland man to a notorious Salvadoran prison a “grievous error,” adding that the Trump administration’s conduct “shocks the conscience.” The judge has ordered the government to return the man,

The Supreme Court granted a temporary pause Monday on a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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 attorney said in court that the administration shouldn't have deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a protected legal resident.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president's hardline approach to immigration.

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