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A federal judge is now ordering the Department of Homeland Security to release regular updates on efforts to track down illegal immigrants who missed their check-in appointments.

Back in May, U.S. District Judge Kent Wetherell placed a temporary restraining order blocking DHS from releasing immigrants into the country. Shortly after this order, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement revealed that 2,500 illegal immigrants were already gone.

Two months later, 80% of them are nowhere to be found. Now the judge is saying that he’s “skeptical that DHS is serious” about tracking them down, or that it will “take any action against them if it ever finds them.”

Wetherell acknowledges he lacks the authority to order the DHS to track them down, so he’s doing what he can to hold them accountable. The next update is required a month from now.