Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains in jail this week as lawyers argue over whether the U.S. Department of Justice can stop him from being deported.

They’ve asked the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit to direct the government to bring him to Maryland while he awaits trial in Tennessee.

A federal judge on Friday granted a request by Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys to keep him in jail until his next hearing, a maneuver intended to prevent his deportation from the U.S.