Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys are pushing to keep a civil case against the Trump administration alive so they can seek sanctions against officials for allegedly violating orders to return him from El Salvador,

In an interview with NBC News, the president said it was the Justice Department's decision, not his, to bring the Maryland man back to the U.S.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported under the Trump administration, has been returned to the U.S. to face smuggling charges amid controversy over his alleged ties to MS-13 and claims of wrongful prosecution.