The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate,” but not necessarily “effectuate,” the return of a Salvadoran national mistakenly deported in March, stopping short of the full remedy sought by the Court’s liberal justices.
The unanimous, unsigned opinion did not set a deadline for the return of Salvadoran national Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia following his mistaken March 15 deportation to El Salvador, rather instructing the Trump administration to take “steps” to initiate his return.
“The order properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the Supreme Court’s ruling said regarding the previous lower court ruling on the case. “The intended scope of the term…
