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Kilmar 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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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, out of ICE custody, leaves with ‘head held up high’

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a free man, at least temporarily. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident, appeared early Friday for a check-in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, less than day after a…

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Las Vegas Sun broke the news in Las Vegas, United States on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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