WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court today instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of a man who the government admittedly deported by accident.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration must facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The DOJ says the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland-based Salvadoran immigrant wrongfully deported to an El Salvador last month, are unknown.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration must work to bring back a man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the White House's emergency appeal.

A federal judge said Friday that it is “extremely troubling” that a government lawyer couldn’t explain what, if anything, the Trump administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A U.S. federal judge said on Friday it was "extremely troubling" that the Trump administration failed to comply with her court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident it illegally deported to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis demanded at a hearing that the administration…

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