President Trump’s administration must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in massive immigration sweeps, a federal judge said Sunday. A lawyer for the Justice Department admitted days earlier there was no clear reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia was shipped to a notorious prison in Central America on March 15.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis pushed back on claims by DOJ lawyers that they have no power to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, back from El Salvador.

The lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, have filed a formal response opposing a block request on his return.

A federal judge is defending her decision to order the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A federal judge's deadline to return an alleged undocumented gang member from a prison in his native country of El Salvador, continues to loom over the Trump Administration.

The attorney said in court that the administration shouldn't have deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a protected legal resident.

The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to an El Salvador prison.

A judge on Friday ordered the government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported in error to El Salvador.

Attorney General Pam Bondi pushed back Sunday against a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration must bring back an illegal immigrant from Maryland who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

A US Justice Department lawyer was placed on leave after admitting the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man legally protected from removal. The government is now challenging a court order to bring him back.