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,

Judges in New York and Texas have placed temporary guard rails on the president’s use of a wartime law to deport some alleged gang members to a prison in El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero, a makeup artist, was among the Venezuelans deported without a court hearing under the Alien Enemies Act to El Salvador's mega-prison. The family spoke with NBC News' David Noriega about Romero's deportation and imprisonment.

The court placed limits on how deportations may occur, emphasizing that judicial review is required. Detainees must be notified that they are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

Police believed Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang for two reasons: He was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and an unnamed informant had told them so. The two pieces of evidence were not enough to keep Abrego Garcia in federal immigration custody in 2019,

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order who has lived in the U.S. since 2011, was deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison on March 15.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian protection.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador pleaded for his return on Wednesday (April 9), after the U.

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in April 2025, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garci