A US judge has said he could hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for "willful disregard" of an order to halt the departure of deportation flights carrying more than 200 people to El Salvador last month.

A judge said she’d order U.S. officials to be deposed on what the Trump administration has done, if anything, to facilitate the return of a mistakenly deported Maryland man after the president of El Salvador refused to return him.

Lawyers for wrongfully deported Maryland father can depose officials over compliance with Supreme Court ruling to ‘facilitate’ his return to the United States