Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile deportation and human smuggling case, are asking a federal judge to keep their client in jail after the Trump administration revealed in court it intends to deport the defendant to a third country if he is released from custody.

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge in Tennessee on Friday to delay his release from jail because of “contradictory statements” by President Donald Trump's administration over whether or not he'll be deported upon release.

Just days after winning court-ordered release from criminal detention, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is pleading with a judge to keep him incarcerated — because of conflicting statements by the Trump administration about whether it will try to quickly deport him upon release.