Showdown maybe. They don't have a deadline or consequences for failing to act or requirement that they actually take steps which result in his being returned to the US.
The constitutional crisis has been underway since inaguration day, but the wheels of justice grind slowly so there is some delay between getting knocked off track and the inevitable trainwreck.
The showdown is the answer of the question "Will trump disobey the orders of the supreme court of the land?" If that answer is yes then we are in an interesting timeline
Looking at the Google Earth pictures, it looks like this isn't a prison but a death camp.
Maybe that's why they are fighting so hard to bring him back, because everyone would learn what they did.
Edit: if your didn't see the posts, search CECOT on Google maps. It also looks like there might be mass graves up north.
They sent them to jail, yet we don't know what they exactly did (all they told us they were in a vegetable gang), we don't know how long they supposed to be jailed and how would they finish serving their sentence. Most of those people aren't even from El Salvador, so where would they go after.
It looks like they are never meant to leave the place and the payment was one time, so it looks like he just outsourced the killing.
CECOT Prisoners are not intended to leave, ever, according to Bukele's justice minister. 156 violent people shoved into 100 square meter cells with no regard for gang affiliation. Steel bunks 3 levels high - no mats, no windows, just a toilet and wash basin shared among everyone in a cell. They're fed rice without utensils, and provided zero outdoor time or visitation.
Basically a steel and concrete pit built to make people wish they got the death penalty.
I don't think they expected that guy getting recognized. They called them foreign alien terrorists to make sure the reaction is negative.
More and more looks like what is really going on is that trump thinks to use this prison/death camp to get rid of his opposition and using foreign country is to skip the US Constitution.
Those people were sent to test the ground, he just looked for immigrants with tattoos so he could call them gang members.
One this worked the plan (and he admitted himself) was to send the "worst of the worst" US citizens there.
The problem is that now he is deciding who is "worst of the worst".
The reason he is doing this in stages is to get people to get used that sending people without trial to foreign prison is normal.
Puppy Killer Noem, and a network news journalist have managed to get permission to get into that prison with camera crews, but somehow the entire HitlerPig administration cant seem to reach anyone who can authorize this guy's release?