For more than five years, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an adjudged illegal immigrant living on borrowed time in the United States.
During that period, a deportation order applied to him, but it had been put on hold. This fact was overshadowed by the uproar surrounding his recent deportation.
The El Salvador native, who disputes a judge’s finding that the evidence that he is an MS-13 gang member is truthful, was sent to prison in his home country without a hearing in early March.
That alleged violation of due process touched off a media frenzy and a legal tug-of-war that has already reached the nation’s highest court. The case is among several that could affect President Donald Trump’s pursuit of stricter immigration law enforcement….