El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT, houses over 250 Venezuelans deported from the US as part of a contentious deportation deal. The arrangement, involving $6 million from the US, faces legal challenges and human rights concerns over conditions and detainees' affiliations.

The Trump administration is preparing to send more immigrants with criminal records to El Salvador’s notorious mega prison on the heels of a Supreme Court order allowing the use for now of a sweeping wartime authority for deportations,

Back in 2019, a judge granted the Salvadoran national protected status that should have prevented his deportation to the notorious 'mega prison'

The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had a court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court said that the Trump administration is required to "facilitate" the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. The court partly granted and partly rejected an emergency request filed by the Justice Department contesting a judge’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be retrieved from a prison in El Salvador where he was sent on March 15 along with alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The government has said Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported because of an "administrative error", but has fought against his return to the US.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.

Family and friends of a Democratic lawmakers held a press conference demanding the return of a person who was deported to El Salvador that the White House has described as an "administrative error" on Wednesday.