The Justice Department has placed on administrative leave a government immigration lawyer who in court this week expressed frustration at not being able to answer key questions from a judge over a mistaken deportation case,

The DOJ attorney said in court that the administration should not have deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a protected legal resident.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed one of its senior immigration lawyers, who criticized the Trump administration over mistakenly deporting a Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador, on leave.

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.

An “administrative error” that led to a Maryland man being deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump’s immigration policy has thrust Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia into the national spotlight.

A judge ordered the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongly deported Maryland man, from El Salvador. Despite government acknowledgment of the mistake, the administration claims no legal authority to bring him back.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported from Maryland to El Salvador in a shocking immigration mistake ICE admits was an “administrative error.” A federal judge slammed the government and gave just 72 hours to bring Kilmar home.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura's husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, left work to pick up their 5-year-old special needs child when immigration agents took him into custody.