A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to deport undocumented Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, The Washington Post reported.

District Judge Paula Xinis made the order "hours after Homeland Security officials detained him during a required check-in at the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore and said they’d begun processing him for removal," reported Maria Sacchetti, Jeremy Roebuck, and Dana Munro.

That detention itself came just days after Abrego Garcia was released from federal detention in Tennessee.

Abrego Garcia's case has become a major point of controversy in the Trump administration's immigration policy, as he was erroneously deported to the Salvadoran megaprison CECOT, despite a judge's standing order he could not be deported to that country.

The Trump administration, which has claimed Abrego Garcia is a member of the criminal organization MS-13 despite his denials, spent months claiming they had no jurisdiction over him once he was in El Salvador, before finally caving to public pressure and a string of court orders and returning him to the United States. Trump's DOJ immediately proceeded to launch criminal charges against Abrego Garcia once he was repatriated, claiming an informant provided evidence he was part of a human smuggling operation.

The decision to deport him to Uganda, a country to which he has no ties or history, was blocked by Xinis in part because, she noted, there is nothing to prevent Uganda from simply deporting him back to El Salvador itself, allowing Trump to circumvent previous U.S. rulings.