A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, following his rearrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Monday morning, agents at ICE’s office in Baltimore took Abrego Garcia back into custody after he presented himself for a check-in. He had been free for just three days, following more than five months of detention, including time in the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, to which the Trump administration admitted he was wrongfully deported in an “administrative error.”
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration not to follow through with its plans to send Abrego Garcia to Uganda — a country he has no ties to. She told prosecutors, “Your clients are absolutely forbidden at this juncture to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia from the continental United States.”