The Trump administration has petitioned the Supreme Court to lift a lower court's ruling that mandates the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. Garcia, facing deportation due to alleged gang ties, has been wrongly transferred to a brutal prison in El Salvador, contradicting a 2019 immigration ruling that protected him from such actions. The administration claims the court-imposed deadline complicates international negotiations with El Salvador, particularly regarding human rights concerns surrounding the prison. A previous appeal by the administration was rejected by a federal appeals court, intensifying the legal dispute.
Soon after Trump's team filed the Monday petition to the Supreme Court, a three-judge panel on the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the administration's request to scrap the ruling.
The United States cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations.
The White House alleges that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 - something his relatives deny.
A 2019 immigration judge's ruling restricted Abrego Garcia from being deported to El Salvador because he could face persecution, including from the Barrio 18 gang.
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