A federal judge found the Trump administration in contempt after it twice deported an asylum-seeker identified in court documents as E.L.A. to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. After his first deportation, E.L.A. voluntarily returned to the U.S. and submitted to immigration custody, but was wrongfully deported a second time to the country where he feared persecution. The case stems from a 2019 class-action lawsuit protecting the asylum rights of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied minors, and the judge ordered the government to return him and halt any removal until his asylum case is resolved.