April, with the “sweet showers” Chaucer told about, is winding down. But April, as T.S. Eliot wrote, can be “the cruelest month,” as it has been for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other migrants who have been illegally rendered by the Trump administration to El Salvador — 90 percent of whom, unlike the incumbent president, have no U.S. criminal record and their alleged ties to gangs are not at all evident.

Abrego Garcia was illegally deported in March to the infamous CECOT prison in his home country of El Salvador, flouting a 2019 U.S. court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution.

The Holocaust Encyclopedia defines a concentration camp as a place of imprisonment “of unlimited duration ... not linked to a specific act, and not subject to any judicial review.” CECOT prison fits the bill neatly.

The Supreme Court has unanimously ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody so that he can have a hearing. But the administration has so far defied the court, hiding behind the autocratic government of El Salvador, which it claims is unwilling to send him back. I expect that a phone call from the White House would return Abrego Garcia to his family, who just happen to be American citizens. But Trump has vowed never to do even........

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