If the Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador manages to return to the U.S., he will be detained and removed from the country, the Department of Justice said in a court filing Tuesday. The big picture: The Trump administration is resisting courts' orders to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from a notorious Salvadorian prison,

The U.S. government’s latest judge-mandated daily status update stated just that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was alive and remained in an El Salvador prison.

The Trump administration now claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia wasn’t deported by mistake, as the Justice Department said, but was “the right person sent to the right place.”