US EditionJudge orders immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention
Judge Paula Xinis ruled ICE detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia without a final removal order, ordering his immediate release amid ongoing criminal charges and deportation disputes.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after granting a habeas corpus petition.
- After being wrongfully deported in March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite a prior deportation ban, then returned and charged by the Trump administration.
- Prosecutors say the 2022 Tennessee stop involved Kilmar Abrego Garcia driving a van with eight passengers, none with identification, facing human smuggling and conspiracy charges he denies.
- The judge freed Abrego Garcia while he continues to fight criminal charges brought by the Trump administration, and the Department of Homeland Security is expected to appeal and update the court by 5 p.m. Thursday.
- The court noted ICE's pursuit of third-country removals and questioned its purpose after respondents misrepresented Liberia as the only option, while his mistaken deportation rallied critics of the Trump administration.
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Judge Paula Xinis accepted a request from her defense for her immediate release, claiming that she had been arrested “without legal authorization.”
Kilmar Ábrego García, wrongfully deported man at centre of immigration crackdown, released
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García, whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint in U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge ruled that the federal government never secured a formal order for Ábrego García's removal from the United States.
On Thursday, U.S. immigration authorities released undocumented Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García, deported by mistake in March and then returned to the U.S., a judicial battle that is still alive before the courts. Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration has promised to expel anyway, has become a symbol of those who consider the policy of mass deportations to be excessive. A federal judge in the state of Maryland had ordered the Donald Trump…
Kilmar Abrego released from ICE custody after court ruling faults government | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> A U.S. judge today ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego, whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, ruling the U.S. government never secured a formal order for his removal from the United States.
Washington, Dec 11 (EFE).- Kilmar Ábrego García, the Salvadoran migrant who was returned to the United States after an irregular deportation to El Salvador, was released on Thursday from a immigration center in the state of Pennsylvania on the order of a judge, told EFE his lawyer. Counsel Sean Hecker confirmed his release hours after Paula Xinis, a federal judge in the state of Maryland, ordered that Abrego be released “immediately” from the im…
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