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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He became a symbol of Trump's deportation policy: first they deported Ábrego García to El Salvador, then he came back to the United States – and was immediately arrested again. Now there was another court decision.
Washington, U.S.A. A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. immigration police to “immediately” release Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García, the protagonist for months of a pulse between the government, which wants to expel him, and the justice system, which considers the process irregular. Married to an American, Kilmar Abrego García was mistakenly expelled to El Salvador in March and returned to the United States. Since then, the governm…
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the authorities to release Kilmar Abrego García , the Salvadoran who was mistakenly deported to a maximum security prison in his country in the spring and who became a symbol of Donald Trump’s hard hand in immigration policy. Abrego, who was returned to the U.S. in the midst of a judicial battle and a great controversy over his deportation, is under arrest by the Customs and Immigration Police (ICE, known …
Maryland Judge Orders ICE to Immediately Release Kilmar Abrego Garcia
"Because Abrego Garcia has been held in ICE detention to effectuate third-country removal absent a lawful removal order, his requested relief is proper." The post Maryland Judge Orders ICE to Immediately Release Kilmar Abrego Garcia first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
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