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Bloomberg
an hour ago
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- Bloomberg
Judges Order Abrego Garcia's Release, Bar New Arrest by ICE
Embattled Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia scored a pair of wins against the Trump administration as judges in two states issued rulings supporting his freedom while he fights federal human smuggling charges. Separate decisions Wednesday from Tennessee and Maryland require that Abrego Garcia be freed while he fights the criminal case and prevent immigration agents from arresting him. The US was also ordered give Abrego Garcia 72 hours notice if they plan to deport him to a third country.
Politico
2 hours ago
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- Politico
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody
Though immigration enforcement officials signaled that he's likely to be re-detained when he arrives in Maryland. This courtroom sketch depicts Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting in court during his detention hearing on June 25, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. | Diego Fishburn/AP By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney 07/23/2025 03:58 PM EDT One of the Trump administration's highest-profile deportation targets, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, must be released from criminal custody in Tennessee and returned to Maryland and cannot be immediately redetained by immigration authorities, a pair of federal judges ruled Wednesday. The rulings are victories for Abrego, a Salvadoran man who entered the U.S. illegally and has lived in Maryland for about a decade. But they may be short-lived: Immigration enforcement officials signaled that he's likely to be re-detained when he arrives in Maryland.
Al Arabiya
2 hours ago
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- Al Arabiya
Judge bars Ice from immediately taking Abrego Garcia into custody if he's released from jail
A federal judge in Maryland has prohibited the Trump administration from taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immediate immigration custody if he's released from jail in Tennessee while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges, according to an order issued Wednesday. US District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the US government to provide notice of three business days if Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to initiate deportation proceedings against the Maryland construction worker. The judge also ordered the government to restore the federal supervision that Abrego Garcia was under before he was wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador in March. That supervision had allowed Abrego Garcia to live and work in Maryland for years while he periodically checked in with ICE. Abrego Garcia became a prominent face in the debate over President Donald Trump's immigration policies following his wrongful expulsion to El Salvador in March. Trump's administration violated a US immigration judge's order in 2019 that shields Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador because he likely faces threats of gang violence there.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from jail, put under ICE supervision in Baltimore
NASHVILLE − A federal judge in Nashville has ruled Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be released from jail before trial on criminal charges in Tennessee, a decision his attorneys had argued for since he was brought back to the U.S. in June after his illegal deportation in March. Abrego Garcia will not be immediately let out of jail due to a pending motion by his attorneys to delay his release. Meanwhile, a judge in Maryland has ordered Abrego Garcia must be transferred to the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore. If ICE wants to deport Abrego Garcia, it must give him 72 hours notice so he can assert claims of credible fear or seek any other relief, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, in Maryland, wrote. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw issued the Tennessee ruling, which came down July 23. "The Government has failed to show on appeal that this case is one of the 'carefully limited exception[s]' where detention pending trial is justified, entitling Abrego to his liberty in the meantime," Crenshaw wrote. Abrego Garcia's attorneys in Tennessee had recently asked that any order to release him from jail be delayed for 30 days. While they had argued Abego Garcia has a right to be let out of jail, they said government officials planned to apprehend Abrego Garcia and begin deportation proceedings if he was released. Crenshaw opted to leave that decision for Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes, who will take over the case and rule on the request for a 30-day delayed release from jail in the future. Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. without authorization around 2011. Immigration authorities issued a final order of removal for Abrego Garcia in 2019, but they said he could not be released to his home country of El Salvador due to credible fears of persecution by gangs in that country. The U.S. deported him to a Salvadoran mega prison in March, prompting a unanimous rebuke from the U.S. Supreme Court to bring him back. He was brought back June 6 to face charges of alien smuggling, centering around a 2022 traffic stop in Cookeville, Tennessee. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Ruben Montoya contributed. Have questions about the justice system? Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for The Tennessean. Contact him with questions, tips or story ideas at emealins@ This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Abrego Garcia to be released from jail, put under ICE supervision
Wall Street Journal
2 hours ago
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- Wall Street Journal
Judge Says Abrego Garcia Must Be Returned to Maryland After Release From Jail
A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man at the center of a fierce legal battle, to be sent to Maryland after being released from jail in Tennessee, and placed guardrails on attempts by the Trump administration to deport him again. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the government must give the 29-year-old Salvadoran native 72 hours notice before attempting to deport him to another country. Earlier this year he was deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order barring him from being sent back to his home country.
