The U.S. asked the Supreme Court to intervene Monday to block a lower court order to the return an immigrant deported to El Salvador.

The Trump administration has described Abrego Garcia’s deportation both as an “administrative error” and a “clerical error.”

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. 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.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order who has lived in the U.S. since 2011, was deported to a notorious Salvadorian prison on March 15.

A federal judge is for the second time ordering the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador, blasting the U.S. government in a ruling Sunday that noted a now-suspended Justice Department lawyer admitted he didn't know why the man was being held.

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 Trump administration has until 11:59 p.m. Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who the government admits was accidentally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador.

The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote

A Justice Department attorney conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia shouldn’t have been sent to El Salvador, but the administration is now fighting a judicial order to correct the error.