The Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a “third country” eventually, meaning not El Salvador, where he is from and was mistakenly sent back to earlier this year.

A Justice Department lawyer said on Thursday there wasn’t a timeline for the deportation.

“There are no imminent plans to remove him to a third country,” DOJ lawyer Jonathan Guynn told a federal judge in Maryland at a brief court appearance Thursday.

The disclosure arose in the hearing when US District Judge Paula Xinis declined at this time to stop the Trump administration from hastily deporting Abrego Garcia again in the coming week, even while he faces criminal charges.

The undocumented immigrant still appears to be in limbo on what’s next for him – and the Trump Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department now may be at odds.