A district court judge awarded $6.6 million combined to four whistleblowers who were fired shortly after they reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI.

Federal attorneys asked the an appeals court to pause a ruling ordering the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return.

The DOJ attorney said in court that the administration should not have deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a protected legal resident.

Erez Reuveni had worked at the Justice Department for nearly 15 years, most recently as the acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation.

The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to an El Salvador prison.