The only word the Supreme Court left out of its order last week to return a wrongfully deported Salvadoran migrant from the prison where he is being held in El Salvador was “please.” To briefly recap, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant, is married to a U.S. citizen and has one child. He has been living in this country for more than ten years and since 2019 has had a “green card” work permit. He was granted temporary protected status based on his claim that if he were returned to his home country, he would be in danger of persecution from Salvadoran gangs. He has never been arrested.
Agents for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) picked him up in Maryland on March 12, shipped him to an immigration holding facility in Texas, from which he was later deported on a flight along with some 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members. His wife recognized him in a photo of the deportees taken in the Salvadoran prison, the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT). She got a lawyer and filed a lawsuit in Maryland seeking to have him returned from his confinement in El Salvador.
