The Trump administration last month to Kilmar Ábrego García to the Terroristmus Confinement Center (CECOT), along with more than 200 Venezuelans and Salvadorans, many of whom are members of the gangs, according to the authorities without providing evidence.
The US Supreme Court partially supported last week the order of Judge Paula Xinis, which demanded that the Government “facilitate” the return of the Salvadoran, after admitting that its deportation was an “administrative error.”
Trump’s officials continue to be contrary to the order, while the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said this week that he will not let Abrego return to the United States.
Judge Xinis gave Tuesday to Trump’s government two weeks to provide more information about what he has done to free Ábrego.
1. Who is Kilmar Abrego
Kilmar Abrego arrived in the United States from El Salvador illegally in 2011.
He was arrested in 2019 with three other men in Maryland and arrested by federal immigration authorities.
That same year, an immigration judge granted him legal protection against deportation on the basis that he could be at risk of persecution by the gangs of El Salvador.
Abrego, 29, had been living with his wife and children under this legal status protected in Maryland until he was deported in mid -March.
The detainee’s wife, Jennifer Vásquez Sura, an American citizen, has said that Trump and Bukele’s administrations “continue to play political games with their life.”
2. What does the White House say
The Trump administration reported that Ábrego deportation was an administrative error. They also said that it has links with the MS-13 gang, a criminal group that appears within the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
From the Trump government they said that a confidential informant demonstrated the Ábrego links with this band, something that the Salvadoran relatives and lawyers deny.
The federal judge who presides over her case said that Abrego has no criminal record in the United States or El Salvador, and that the links with the gangs attributed to her are “a unique and without foundation accusation.”
Ábrego García has not been accused of having links with gangs.
Bukele said Monday in an encounter that he had with Trump in the White House that he would not send Abrego García back because “we do not like to free terrorists in our country,” despite the fact that no evidence has been seen that link the young man with terrorism.
“The question is absurd,” said Bukele, Trump’s ally since he returned to the White House in January. “I don’t have the power to return to the United States.”
The United States Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the meeting that “it depends on El Salvador if they want to return it.”
Bondi said the Supreme Court ruled “that if El Salvador wants to send it back, it will facilitate the action, providing a plane.”
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Democrats and the media said they had “deported a candidate for the father of the year”, claiming once again that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
3. Your legal status
Shortly after their deportation to CECOT, the relatives of Abrego demanded that the Trump administration brought it back to the United States.
Judge Xinis ordered the government to “facilitate and carry out” its return before April 7.
After the Trump administration appealed the ruling before the Supreme Court, the judges unanimously ruled that the Trump administration should try to “facilitate” its return, while requested to the judge of the case to clarify its directive of “carrying out”.
The judges did not give the Government a deadline for Obrego to be released.
On Tuesday, Judge Xinis ordered the Trump administration again to provide more information about what he has done to free Ábrego García and added that he would decide in two weeks if the government is acting in good faith or in contempt of the court.
An American official said during the weekend that Ábrego García was “alive and safe” in the megaprision of El Salvador.