The Department of Justice is seeking to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in custody pending his federal criminal trial in Tennessee on two counts of unlawfully transporting undocumented aliens.

In new court filings from Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team, attorneys called out the government for "flouting" rather than following court orders.

The case is a political flashpoint in the administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement. Now it returns to the U.S. court system, where Abrego Garcia appeared Friday after being returned from El Salvador.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are accusing President Donald Trump's administration of pretending for weeks to be powerless to bring him back to the United States from El Salvador, despite orders from a federal judge and the Supreme Court to facilitate his return.

Prosecutors have asked a judge for a pre-trial detention hearing in the human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, after he was brought back to the U.S. Friday.

The Trump administration wants Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain in custody as he awaits a Tennessee trial over charges including human trafficking.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a political and legal maelstrom after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was being heldin a Tennessee jail after being flown back to the United States on Friday to face new charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

To say the Trump administration has "complied" with a judge's order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "pure farce," his attorneys said in a filing.