During a three-hour hearing, a frustrated U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis appeared incredulous over the administration’s lack of a definite plan for deporting Abrego after a Justice Department attorney said that was the plan.

The Maryland man was accidentally deported to El Salvador in March before being returned to the U.S. and imprisoned on charges his lawyers call 'preposterous'

The plan directly contradicted the White House, which last month described as “fake news” reports of plans to re-deport Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.