A federal judge expressed frustration with Justice Department lawyers at a marathon hearing Friday as she weighed the Trump administration's efforts to send to Africa Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man previously deported to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia is back in the United States in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, but he remains protected from deportation to his home country.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is weighing arguments from Abrego Garcia’s lawyers that the administration is illegally punishing their client by floating various African countries that won’t accept him rather than oblige his demand to be removed to Costa Rica instead.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers argue the judge should release their client. The judge will issue a ruling in writing later.

“They have

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