The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the U.S. to try to return a wrongly deported immigrant from a prison in El Salvador.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court said that the Trump administration is required to "facilitate" the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. The court partly granted and partly rejected an emergency request filed by the Justice Department contesting a judge’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be retrieved from a prison in El Salvador where he was sent on March 15 along with alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The Trump administration had conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported because of an "administrative error", but fought against his return to the US.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Thursday a judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.