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The case, which began in U.S. District Court in Maryland, involves a man who came to the United States from Venezuela as an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum.
A divided federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration to put on hold a judge’s order requiring the government to “facilitate” the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan refugee who was deported earlier this year to El Salvador.
The Trump administration was ordered by an appeals court to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man who was deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador — at least the second time the administration has been told to bring back a migrant it wrongly removed.
Lawyers for the wrongly deported man revealed a stark contrast to what Trump and his officials have been saying publicly.
The U.S. Supreme Court has acted in a series of cases involving challenges to executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and actions by his administration since he returned to office in January.