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Federal judge issues order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Federal Judge Paula Xinis barred ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia after his release, citing lack of lawful removal order and likely success on further relief.

  • On Friday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis barred U.S. immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia until the court hearing on the temporary restraining order.
  • Abrego Garcia's lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking to block further detentions as U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis found he is likely to succeed on the merits and wrote that federal authorities 'affirmatively misled the tribunal.'
  • ICE freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia just before 5 p.m. Thursday from Moshannon Valley Processing Center, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, and he returned to Maryland a few hours later.
  • The order affects immediate liberty and Xinis wrote the court's narrowly crafted remedy cannot be quickly undone if the public is to have faith in justice, while immigration check‑ins track released asylum seekers and many have been detained since President Donald Trump's second term.
  • Earlier this year, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported and held in a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison, and the Department of Homeland Security criticized the order, calling it `naked judicial activism`.
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A federal judge prevented immigration authorities from arresting Kilmar Ábrego García again on Friday, claiming that she feared that they would be able to arrest him again only a few hours after ordering his release from a detention centre.

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Washington, Dec 12 (EFE).- El Salvador's Kilmar Ábrego García won a new legal victory this Friday after a federal judge temporarily prohibited him from being arrested again by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) one day after he was released from a Pennsylvania immigration center.Even so, the legal future of El Salvador, which has become a symbol of Donald Trump's government's abuses in its fight against migrants, is not solved at …

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arcamax.com broke the news in on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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