El Salvador has no “proof” that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, the country’s security minister has admitted. The US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Mr Abrego Garcia’s return after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month but refuses to do so.

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.