Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the United States to face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are accusing President Donald Trump's administration of pretending for weeks to be powerless to return him to the United States from El Salvador. They made

The Salvadoran, set to stand trial in Tennessee, wants to see the government punished for the delay in returning him to these shores.

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Trump administration for "repeated violations of its discovery obligations."

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man arrested by the government and sent to an El Salvador prison in error and then returned to the United States, argue that he should be freed from jail pending trial.

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.