Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation aimed at curtailing the Trump administration's efforts to detain certain individuals overseas, including in El Salvador. 

The new bill, shared first with Spectrum News NY1, would bar the use of federal funds to pay a foreign government or foreign entity to detain individuals “if a court of the United States has determined that such detention violates the laws of the United States.” 

Torres said his bill would “create an incentive” for President Donald Trump to comply with federal court orders.

The legislation is, in part, inspired by the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living in Maryland who was deported to a notorious El Salvador prison in March — despite an immigration judge previously shielding him from being sent back to that country for fear of persecution.

The Trump administration has accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of the gang MS-13, an accusation his family has denied. The Supreme Court has demanded the Trump team help “facilitate” his return. 

“My legislation, if it were enacted, would revoke funding for his detention for what has become an illegal detention,” Torres said.

“Without due process, what is to prevent Donald Trump from misclassifying any one of us as a non-citizen gang member, abducting us in the dead of night and then deporting us to a torture chamber in El Salvador?” he added.

The Trump administration deported more than 200 other alleged gang members to El Salvador along with Abrego Garcia. In March, the White House said the Trump administration was paying approximately $6 million to the Central American nation to detain the “foreign terrorists.” 

Several of those detentions have come under legal scrutiny.

Torres said he is confident his bill will gain support among Democrats, though questioned whether he could secure any backing from Republican lawmakers.