Federal judge releases Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody again amid ongoing legal battles.
Does this deserve a BREAKING label? Maybe RERUN would be more appropriate.
The eight-month-long legal soap opera of Kilmar Abrego Garcia continued overnight. A federal judge sprung the illegal alien from custody, again, even though the Department of Homeland Security has had a deportation order in place since 2019. Abrego Garcia has now been deported, returned, detained again, charged with human trafficking, and . is currently back home in Maryland:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to his Maryland home Thursday night, after a judge ordered the immediate release of the Salvadoran national who was mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told CBS News on Thursday that he was officially out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Pennsylvania. Hours later, he was spotted arriving at his home in Maryland. .
Overnight, his lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who has been presiding over his case, to issue an emergency order blocking immigration officials from re-detaining Abrego Garcia after an immigration judge „unlawfully issued a purported removal order“ Thursday night, they said in a filing.
Xinis granted that request on Friday morning, prohibiting the Trump administration from taking Abrego Garcia into custody once again. She ordered his lawyers and the Justice Department to submit additional filings.
Even this order is a rerun. Judge Xinis has twice issued orders to free Abrego Garcia during the eight-month odyssey of his status as an illegal alien.
