U.S. District Court Judge James Bozberg asking whether the administration ignored his orders to turn planes around that were ferrying deportees out of the country.
This is about a commercial contract between a two-bit dictator and the United States dealing with a contract for $6 million to receive deportees from the United States.
Legal experts say the case is about much more than just one deportee, and raises questions about due process for anyone in the U.S. Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist.
In Venezuela, families of deportees have pleaded to authorities to bring their loved ones home in reports of serious abuses at El Salvador's mega Supermax prison, where they're being held.
Operation Wetback, as it was known, ended up separating parents from their children, stranding deportees in the deserts of northern Mexico without food or water, and damaging the U.S.'s reputation at home and abroad.