2019 detention and bond hearings. In March 2019, Abrego Garcia and three other men were stopped for loitering in Hyattsville, Maryland, in the parking lot of a Home Depot store where, his lawyers say, they were seeking work as day laborers.

After Abrego Garcia's lawyers challenged the basis for his deportation, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, with liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor saying the government had cited no basis for what she called his "warrantless arrest."