Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are accusing President Donald Trump's administration of pretending for weeks to be powerless to bring him back to the United States from El Salvador, despite orders from a federal judge and the Supreme Court to facilitate his return.

The case is a political flashpoint in the administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement. Now it returns to the U.S. court system, where Abrego Garcia appeared Friday after being returned from El Salvador.

The Trump administration complied with an order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was mistakenly sent to his native El Salvador, the DOJ argued.

The Government flouted rather than followed” court orders, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers reminded the judge who ordered his return.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the Trump administration conceded had been wrongly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, has been returned to the United States and is scheduled to be arraigned in a Nashville federal court on Friday.

To say the Trump administration has "complied" with a judge's order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "pure farce," his attorneys said in a filing.

The Department of Justice is seeking to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in custody pending his federal criminal trial in Tennessee on two counts of unlawfully transporting undocumented aliens.