The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody.

The Trump administration admitted it accidentally deported a Maryland father with protected status to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison, but officials are refusing to bring him home—and the government claims the courts can’t make them.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a lawful U.S. resident, is now separated from family and in the custody of a foreign government due to the Trump administration's apparent "administrative error"