The US Court of Appeals will be reviewed Trump administration bid He has kept him in Salvador’s custody for now to avoid returning a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to undertake Trump’s appeal last week – stay A lower court ruling that requires the Trump administration to quickly return him to US soil until May 15th.
The Court of Appeals Ordered the plaintiff If you submit your response to the court by noon on Monday. The Trump administration will need to respond until 9am Tuesday.
The issue is in the case of Daniel Rozano Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan national who was previously known as “Christian” in court documents. Deported to El Salvador in March In the early wave of Trump administration’s alien enemies, rescue occurs.
The federal judge’s orders the return of exiled immigrants to us and rejects Trump’s request.
More than 250 individuals deported from the US to El Salvador arrive by plane, including members of the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela and members of the MS-13 gang, and are processed at the country’s largest security prison. (President El Salvador / Handouts /Anadoru via Getty Images)
US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, Trump’s appointee; It was ruled in April His deportation violated an agreement that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attacked in 2024 with Lozano Camargo and a group of young asylum seekers who entered the United States as unaccompanied children.
Under that agreement, the DHS agreed not to deport the immigrants in question until the asylum request has been fully awarded in US court. Last month, Gallagher said he ordered the US government to promote his release as Lozano Camargo’s deportation was a “breach of contract” and his asylum case has not yet been heard.
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to promote the return of migrants deported to El Salvador. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
She repeated that decision last week in court, refusing to a new submission from the Department of Justice, which stated that she had determined that Lozano Camargo was eligible for removal under the law, and previously quoted him before. Arrested and convicted for possession of cocaine In Houston this year.
Justice Department officials in previous court documents claimed that Lozano Camargo is a member of the “gang of violent terrorists” but did not link him to Tren de Aragua. Some of their latest court filings have been edited.
Gallagher had ordered the Trump administration to “liberate Christian” with “the honest demands of the Salvadoran government.” [or Lozano-Camargo]returned to the United States for US custody and awaited his asylum application ruling on USCIS merit.
Those who refer to El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Prison Center during May Day demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his immigration policy in Houston on May 1, 2025 are put on hold. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
Gallagher stressed last week in court that her decision was unrelated to the strength of his asylum demands and was based solely on legitimate process protection.
“I don’t think this is an example of whether Christian will eventually go into asylum,” she said. He told a Trump administration lawyer.
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“The process is important. Skip to the end and ‘I just know how this ends, so I just skip that part,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if he’ll ultimately receive the asylum. The question is one of the processes and it’s always been.”
Still, Gallagher agreed to maintain her sentence for 48 hours, giving the administration time to appeal it to the Superior Court.
