US EditionFederal judge issues order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Judge Paula Xinis ruled Abrego Garcia’s detention unlawful due to lack of a final removal order, issuing a temporary restraining order blocking ICE from re-detaining him.
- On Friday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis barred U.S. immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia until the court hearing on the temporary restraining order.
- Abrego Garcia's lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking to block further detentions as U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis found he is likely to succeed on the merits and wrote that federal authorities 'affirmatively misled the tribunal.'
- ICE freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia just before 5 p.m. Thursday from Moshannon Valley Processing Center, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, and he returned to Maryland a few hours later.
- The order affects immediate liberty and Xinis wrote the court's narrowly crafted remedy cannot be quickly undone if the public is to have faith in justice, while immigration check‑ins track released asylum seekers and many have been detained since President Donald Trump's second term.
- Earlier this year, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported and held in a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison, and the Department of Homeland Security criticized the order, calling it `naked judicial activism`.
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'Naked judicial activism': Judge issues restraining order on ICE in Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case
The high-profile deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is once again in the spotlight after an "activist" judge once again temporarily threw a wrench in the Department of Homeland Security's work. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued an order barring immigration enforcement officials from detaining and deporting Garcia. 'This order lacks any valid legal basis, and we will continue to fight this tooth and nail in the courts.'Judge…
Kilmar Abrego García passed the first test of his freedom this Friday by not being arrested at the exit of an Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) office in Baltimore, Maryland. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the Salvadoran from being arrested after appearing on his appointment with the immigration authorities, as happened last August. Continue reading
BREAKING: Judge Blocks ICE From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia
Sua Sponte and Nunc Pro Tunc In a dramatic series of overnight developments, the Trump administration took extraordinary steps to try to re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia within hours of his court-ordered release, but a federal judge stepped in and blocked the move. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland issued a temporary restraining order at 7 a.m. ET today barring the Trump administration from taking Abrego Garcia back into custody after sh…
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