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For the second time in a week, the U.S. has asked the court in New York to halt the deportation of one of Trump’s most controversial immigration attorneys, saying that a judge could not rule within the time limit set by previous rulings on a lawsuit filed by Mariela Castro.

Mariela Castro is the mother of Josefina, who is a U.S. citizen and was born in Miami and raised in New York after arriving through El Salvador to attend high school. Josefina is a U.S. citizen as well.

The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida says the Trump administration has “repeatedly ignored a court order to deport Mariela Castro even as it has continued to use her son in immigration enforcement operations.” The ACLU says it has appealed the decision.

In January, a judge issued an emergency stay ordering the administration to immediately halt the “prioritizing in removal of deportable aliens” due to Castro’s deportation. The state of Texas then appealed, and the Department of Homeland Security then agreed to the stay, which expires on Friday. But the immigration agency continues to apply “discretionary detention” orders to other families involved in the suit.

The ACLU argues that the Obama administration’s enforcement policies were “not only arbitrary, but also illegal and in violation of a congressional statute that expressly forbids such practices.”

Trump has repeatedly suggested that the U.S. has not done enough to help the thousands of undocumented immigrants from Central America and Mexico living in the U.S., and has publicly criticized the Obama administration for not doing enough: “These are not good people,” he told an immigration meeting in May. “Our country better treat them humanely and if we have people across the border coming in, we have a problem.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ICE spokesman Thomas Homan appeared at a news conference in Washington, D.C., Friday to criticize the ruling by federal Judge George Daniels and his colleagues.

“This court did precisely what the Attorney General wants them to do, and they did exactly what the government wants them to do,” Homan said.

Daniels in court on Thursday wrote that the agency had never acted upon a request for an order stopping the deportations before that deadline was past. The judge also noted that the Obama administration had also refused to stop similar deportation operations