Greenbelt, Maryland — Lawyers for the Trump administration are poised to face questions in federal court Friday about the administration's plans to again deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in his home country earlier this year before he was brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Justice Department to provide a witness for Friday's hearing with first-hand knowledge of the Trump administration's plans to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, the small African nation formerly known as Swaziland, as it attempts to yet again deport him while his criminal case on charges of human smuggling plays out in Tennessee.

But hours ahead of the hearing, it remains unclear who from th

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