The Trump administration had fought court orders requiring the government to remedy the illegal deportation to El Salvador.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a political and legal maelstrom after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was being heldin a Tennessee jail after being flown back to the United States on Friday to face new charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of sealed records and authorized a potential sanctions motion against the Trump administration in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deported Salvadoran national whose disputed removal from the United States has become a flash point in a broader legal battle over immigration enforcement and court defiance.