Donald Trump confirms his refusal to request the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran deportee by mistake

Uncertainty continues for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the 29-year-old Salvadoran migrant who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador on March 15 and is being detained there, even though the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration on April 10 to "facilitate" his return to Maryland, where he lives with his American wife and their three children. The man has become the symbol of the clash between Donald Trump and the American justice system over respect for the rule of law.

Federal Judge Paula Xinis has been calling since April 4 for the repatriation of the man the Trump administration describes as a "criminal," but who has never been convicted in the United States and who benefits from a court order prohibiting his return to El Salvador, due to potential threats to his security.

On April 23, she granted the administration a week to present the "appropriate" efforts the government said it had undertaken with El Salvadoran authorities to secure the prisoner's release. Her decision was surprising, especially since both Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, had not seemed to pay much attention to the court's advice during their meeting in the Oval Office on April 14. The gesture was interpreted as a harbinger of a potential resolution to the crisis, for example by sending the Salvadoran to a third country.

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