The Trump administration said Sunday that it is not required to engage El Salvador's government in efforts to facilitate the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison there, striking a defiant tone in responding to a federal judge’s order that plans be made to bring him back to the United States.
Federal officials said Sunday that a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) required only that the administration allow Kilmar Abrego García to return should he be released by the government of El Salvador. The administration also argued, in filings Sunday evening in U.S. District Court in Maryland, that Abrego García "is no longer eligible" for the protection from deportation that should have prevented him from being sent to El Salvador in the first place.
The contentions set the stage for another test of the ability of the federal judiciary to rein in an administration that has moved to aggressively expand its executive power in ways courts have deemed illegal and unconstitutional.
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