Abrego Garcia is staying in a Tennessee jail as his attorneys and federal prosecutors spar over where he will stay while he awaits trial.

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.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers have asked a federal judge in Tennessee to delay his release from jail because of “contradictory statements” by President Donald Trump's administration over whether he’ll be deported upon release.