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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed by reporters about the White House defying court orders to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the El Salvador prison where he is reportedly being held. She was asked by ABC News' Karen Travers who is responsible for Abrego Garcia.

Leavitt claimed the administration is complying with court orders.

She repeated unproven claims that the Maryland man was a member of MS-13 and involved in trafficking, citing the president and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.

"There is never going to be a world in which this is an individual who's going to live a peaceful life in Maryland," Leavitt said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked again on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's claims that he can deport American criminals abroad and said the president is still looking into the legality of it.

"He would only consider this if legal for Americans who are the most violent, egregious repeat offenders of crime, who nobody in this room wants living in their communities," she claimed.

The White House is looking to ax funding for NPR and PBS, two outlets that it alleges are left-leaning and a "waste" of taxpayer money.

The White House put out a memo Monday night laying out what it claimed was evidence against the two entities in a list of reporting that it said is "trash that passes for 'news.'"

The list included a PBS documentary that it alleged was "making the case for reparations," a segment on PBS' Washington Week that it said "covered up Joe Biden’s clear mental decline" and a laundry list of stories exploring LGBT issues and racial identity.

The memo did not actually indicate its intention to pull funding.

"Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information," NPR said in a statement Tuesday morning. "We serve the public interest. It's not just in our name — it's our mission."

The administration intends to ask Congress, through a recession request, to cancel funding from public broadcasting, foreign aid initiatives and other programs that have already been approved, according to the New York Post.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

A third federal judge has temporarily blocked some deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

United States District Judge Charlotte Sweeney entered a temporary order on Monday that bars President Donald Trump's administration from removing any noncitizens located in Colorado who are subject to Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Proclamation.

The order will remain in effect for two weeks, and Sweeney set a hearing for April 21 to consider extending her order. She declined to rule on the lawfulness of the AEA proclamation, instead blocking removals to preserve the court’s jurisdiction as she considers the issue.

The decision marks the third time in the last week that a federal judge has limited deportations under the Alien Enemies Act since the Supreme Court lifted a nationwide order, with judges in New York and Texas last week issuing similar rulings. As a whole, the three decisions appear to form a growing patchwork of district-level protections to limit the use of the Alien Enemies Act in lieu of a nationwide order.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous and Laura Romero