U.S. appeals court won’t block order requiring return of man wrongly deported to El Salvador

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has declined to block a federal judge’s ruling that said the United States must bring a man back to Maryland after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador amid the Trump administration’s hardline crackdown on immigration.

The order by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday allows a Friday ruling by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis to take effect. Xinis had ordered the United States to return the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, on Monday. The Trump administration was challenging the order in the appeals court.

(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware)