The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump regime to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongfully deported to El Salvador despite a standing court order barring his removal. The unanimous decision comes as a rare directive from the high court against federal immigration enforcement.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national with no criminal record, had lived in the United States for over a decade and was married to a U.S. citizen. A 2019 ruling granted him protection from removal due to credible threats from gangs in El Salvador. Nevertheless, ICE agents deported him in March 2025, sending him directly into the custody of Salvadoran authorities, where he remains imprisoned.

The administration acknowledged the deportation as an “administrative error,” but argued that the court could not compel action abroad or undo the deportation. The Supreme Court rejected that logic, upholding a lower court order requiring the U.S. government to treat Abrego Garcia’s immigration status as if he had never been deported and to take “all necessary steps” to secure his return.

In a sharply worded concurrence, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that accepting the regime’s position would grant the government unchecked power to detain and deport at will. “There must be consequences for ignoring judicial authority,” she wrote.

Legal analysts note the ruling underscores a growing divide between the administration’s approach to immigration and even the current Supreme Court’s willingness to enforce procedural law.

The government must now report its efforts to retrieve Abrego Garcia and reprocess his asylum claim. Immigration advocates say the case illustrates how far the system has tilted toward punitive enforcement—and how rarely the courts intervene.