Supreme Court does not require the return of wrongfully deported man from El Salvador

A Maryland man was wrongly deported to El Salvador. The U.S. Supreme Court last week required President Donald Trump’s Administration to “facilitate his return” but stopped short of requiring the government to return him to the United States.

The high court said the Trump Administration must try to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, who was deported on March 15, 2025.

The Court did not give the administration a deadline for when Abrego Garcia should be returned.

Roy Herrera, Founding Partner of Herrera Arellano, joined “Arizona Horizon” to talk about the current state of this case.

“This is an individual that entered the country illegally years ago, I think over a decade ago. And in 2017, he received an immigration judge order that basically prohibited his removal from the United States. The basis of the immigration judge’s order was that he would face persecution if he went back to El Salvador,” said Herrera.

“These kind of orders and binding on the Executive Branch, and if you fast-forward to the Trump Administration recently, of course they’ve increased interior enforcement and deportation actions, and he was back to El Salvador, and now at this maximum security prison that’s notorious for housing gang members and things like that,” said Herrera.