Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the United States under the Trump administration, which called it "an administrative error". At the time, he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country; despite this, he was imprisoned without trial in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). His case became the most prominent of the hundreds of migrants the United States sent to be jailed without trial at CECOT under the countries' agreement to imprison US deportees there for money. The administration defended the deportation and accused Garcia of being a member of MS-13—a US-designated terrorist organization—based on a determination made during a 2019 immigration court bail proceeding. Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.