A federal judge said Friday the government must secure the return of a Prince George’s County, Maryland , man who Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted it deported in error.

More than three weeks after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained and flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis ordered that the government return him to the U.S. in about three days, by the end of the day Monday.

The ruling came at the end of a dramatic hearing in which a government lawyer acknowledged to the judge that he couldn't make a case for the deportation.

“We concede the facts. The plaintiff should not have been removed,” a Justice Department lawyer said Friday afternoon in court in Greenbelt.

Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported because of an “administrative error,

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