GREENBELT, MD – A federal judge declined Tuesday to hold the Trump administration in contempt for failing to return a Maryland father wrongly deported to El Salvador but admonished government attorneys for failing to provide evidence of what they were doing to bring him home.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland instructed the U.S. to show what steps it is taking to comply with a court order to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was expelled from the U.S. in March.

“There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship and grandstanding,” she said.

Xinis’ warning follows a ruling last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, which said the administration must begin the process of releasing Abrego Garcia, who has lived in the U.S. for more than a decade. Abrego Garcia was sent to a violent prison in El Salvador despite a previous court order protecting him from deportation to that country.

U.S. officials contend Abrego Garcia is a member of the gang MS-13 and say they have no authority to free him because he is imprisoned in a foreign county. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said during a visit to the White House on Monday that he would not release Abrego Garcia and called the suggestion “preposterous.”

Representing the Trump administration, attorney Drew Ensign said Bukele’s comments in the Oval Office showed that Abrego Garcia’s case “was raised with the highest authority in El Salvador.”

Xinis said Bukele’s response, including his comments that he could not “smuggle a terrorist” back into the U.S., was “a non-responsive answer if that were in a court of law.”