US EditionKilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney’s office says
Judge Paula Xinis ruled ICE detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia without legal authority and ordered his immediate release from a Pennsylvania detention center.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention and directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release him immediately in Maryland.
- After a mistaken March deportation to El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned under court order and filed a federal lawsuit challenging his removal.
- Abrego Garcia is petitioning to reopen his asylum case while his criminal case in Tennessee remains unresolved, where he filed a motion to dismiss, alleging vindictive prosecution.
- His lawsuit contends the administration punished him via deportation procedures, and the litigation with his motion to dismiss Tennessee charges as vindictive will proceed alongside his immigration petition.
- As a political flashpoint, the case draws scrutiny to ICE practices and highlights enforcement errors that affect Kilmar Abrego Garcia's American wife and child, rallying opponents of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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December 11, 2025 – Washington – EFE. Kilmar Ábrego García, a migrant from El Salvador, was released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania by a court order, his lawyer confirmed to EFE. His release took place after federal judge Paula Xinis of the state of Maryland ruled his “immediate” release from the immigration and customs control (ICE) facility, considering that his detention lacked “legal authority.”
His case was an example of US deportation policy. Ábrego García was deported to El Salvador, brought back and arrested again. Now a court ordered his release.
Kilmar Ábrego was released on Thursday, December 11 from a immigration detention center in Pennsylvania
A Salvadoran immigrant expelled by mistake by the Trump administration and then returned to the United States after months of judicial guerrillas was released on Thursday by court order, announced his lawyer, another episode of a saga started almost nine months ago.
Kilmar Abregeo García, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, has been released from custody, his lawyer's office confirmed, according to the AP.
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