GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing again to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia , a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, even though three African countries they’ve approached have rejected the idea, a judge heard during testimony Friday.

Abrego Garcia is challenging efforts to re-deport him to a third country after the government admitted that a previous order prevents his deportation to his home country of El Salvador. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said recently that it plans to deport him to the southern African country of Eswatini .

The case has come to represent the bitter partisan struggle over the President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland said F

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