It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the plight of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

A Baltimore-based judge is ordering the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old man from El Salvador.

It was a reprieve for the group of Venezuelans detained at Bluebonnet, who still face being potentially sent to CECOT, the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent at least 137 Venezuelans under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act,