NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal judges in two states on Friday will consider challenges to the government's treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia , whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador galvanized opposition to President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.

In Maryland, Abrego Garcia has challenged efforts to re-deport him to a third country after the government admitted that a previous order prevents his deportation to his home country of El Salvador. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said recently that it plans to deport him to the southern African country of Eswatini .

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered government officials to testify Friday about what steps they have taken to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini or any other

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