Attorneys who succeeded in blocking a middle-of-the-night effort to deport unaccompanied Guatemalan minors over the Labor Day weekend are now seeking a civil contempt of court ruling against the Trump administration for allegedly circumventing a judge’s order that continues to bar their deportation.

A routine immigration release in Minnesota turned into a legal flare-up when a federal judge in Minneapolis briefly held a Department of Justice attorney in civil contempt and threatened a $500-a-day sanction after an immigrant was released without his identification.

Court documents say ICE transferred a man from Minnesota to El Paso, Texas, despite a court order stating the man should not be removed from the state.

A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for “flagrant disobedience of court orders” in the case of a noncitizen swept up in the immigration crackdown there earlier this year.

The ruling out of Minnesota marks a new level of judicial concern about the Trump administration’s lack of compliance with judges’ orders in immigration cases.

A Minnesota federal judge ordered a government attorney to be held in civil contempt of court, further escalating tension between the judiciary and Trump administration over immigration cases.

"Administrative burden has never been a reason to sacrifice the constitutional and statutory rights of individuals," the judge wrote.

For the first time during Operation Metro Surge, a federal judge has imposed stiff consequences on a government attorney for ICE’s violation of a court order related to the release of a detained

A judge found a JAG working for the DOJ in civil contempt and threatened to fine him daily until the Trump administration returns a released ICE detainee's ID. The post JAG buried under DOJ cases after mass resignations slapped with 'coercive fine,