The Trump administration have provided an update on the whereabouts of a Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador’s notorious mega prison by mistake.

Trump’s second term as president has seen a mass amount of deportations as his administration aims to crack down on illegal immigration into the US.

So far, over 250 alleged criminals have been deported to a mega jail in El Salvador, The Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), as Trump’s plan to enact mass deportations using a law from World War II is seemingly in full swing following the Supreme Court’s approval of its use – something which pleased the president.

However, one man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was one of those who was sent to CECOT, even though he wasn’t supposed to be there.

Garcia, who received legal protection from deportation in 2019, was accidentally deported to El Salvador, with the Trump administration noting his deportation was due to an ‘administrative error’.

Donald Trump has issued a huge crackdown on illegal immigration into the US (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said that he had fled gang violence from El Salvador over ten years ago, but an ‘error’ on the government’s part led to him being arrested by ICE in mid-March ‘due to his prominent role in MS-13’, which his attorneys denied.

While the Trump administration acknowledged this mistake, they have seemingly resisted helping bring back the Salvadoran national to the US.

But on Thursday (April 10), the Supreme Court stepped in to back up a district’s court order to ‘facilitate and effectuate’ Abrego Garcia’s return to the US.

The Court made a 9-0 ruling which declined to block the lower court’s order to the administration, which will now mean that Abrego Garcia will need to be released from custody in El Salvador and ‘to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent’.

Following that verdict, a representative from the Trump administration issued an update on Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts.

State Department official Michael Kozakv told a judge (via the BBC): “It is my understanding, based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador, that Abrego Garcia is being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.”

“He is alive and secure in that facility,” the official added.

The Center for Terrorism Confinement in El Salvador is one of the largest prisons in the Americas (Handout/Presidencia El Salvador via Getty Images)

BBC News further reports that President Trump is set to sit down with the president of El Salvador on Monday (April 14) to discuss the ongoing issue.

Trump also told reporters that he ‘respects the Supreme Court’, adding if they asked him to ‘bring someone back, I would do that’.

Following the Supreme Court ruling, the case is set for the trial court as the justices did not provide the administration a deadline for when Abrego Garcia should be freed.

A new bill has officially been passed in the US that will see elections in the country change as we know it after Donald Trump signed off an executive order.

Since President Trump returned to office for a second term in January he has signed countless executive orders – some being more controversial than others.

These include renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, an order eradicating the Department of Education, and one that could have a massive impact on medical patients.

Last month, the 47th POTUS signed an order entitled: ‘Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections’.

Trump signed the executive order in the White House recently (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing,” the legislation states.

“India and Brazil, for example, are tying voter identification to a biometric database, while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship.”

And now a new bill codifying how exactly this will work is making its way through Congress.

The US House of Representatives approved the bill on Thursday (April 10), with politicians voting 220-208 in favour of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the Save Act for short.

Voters in elections will now need to show ‘documentary proof of US citizenship’ when registering to vote in federal votes, with accepted forms of ID including US passports, identification documents compliant with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005s, official military identification cards, and other valid Federal or State government-issued photo identification.

The new order also insists individual states work with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, to share voter lists and prosecute crimes via a common registration form.

Voting is set to change in the US (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Guardian reports around half of US citizens do not have a passport, while Democrats have pointed out some voters no longer have birth certificates.

Passports in the US cost $165.

Georgian Democrat Nikema Williams said: “Y’all, that’s a poll tax, plain and simple, and it’s blatant voter suppression.”

While Republican representative Mary Miller responded: “This past week and today, all we hear are the Democrats sharing their concerns that rural Americans, women and people of color are not capable of getting an ID.

“This is insulting, condescending and an untrue argument. You need an ID for most everything else in daily life.”

After singing the executive order last month at the White House, Trump told reporters: “Election fraud. You’ve heard the term. We’re going to end it, hopefully. At least this will go a long way toward ending it.”