The first time Abrego Garcia was deported in March, the U.S. illegally took him to a Salvadorian mega prison. It brought him back June 6 to face criminal charges in Tennessee. After two hearings, Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ruled he should be released from jail before trial.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully expelled to El Salvador in March, poked holes on Wednesday in some of the evidence supporting the charges that were used to bring him back to face trial in the United States.

There have now been three straight court hearings surrounding Abrego Garcia's future; each of them has ended with no decision from a federal judge.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team asked a judge at a hearing Friday to order that he not be removed from the United States without at least 72 hours notice should he be released on bond from detention in Tennessee.

Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. presided over the Kilmar Ábrego García bail hearing on Wednesday and indicated that the Justice Department struggled to reach the high standard required to declare him a danger to the community.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego, the migrant returned to the U.S. after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, is due in court on Wednesday on human smuggling charges as the future of his criminal case and his presence in the country remain uncertain.

Judge Paula Xinis proposed a 48-hour hold on deporting Abrego Garcia from the United States again, but the government refused to agree to those terms.