The Trump administration claims that judges’ orders in the cases of immigrants deported to a prison in El Salvador intrude on the president’s right to conduct foreign policy.

As criticism of that stance spread, and federal courts sided against the administration, Vice President J. D. Vance, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller, Bondi, and other top Cabinet officials went on the attack. The White House went from calling Abrego Garcia’s deportation a “clerical error” to insisting that no mistake had been made at all.

The deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has turned into a flash point in the immigration debate for the United States. The U.S. government deported the father to El Salvador. He spent weeks at the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) megaprison.