United States District Judge Paula Xinis of the District of Maryland, an Obama appointee, ordered the Trump administration to release Garcia, claiming he was “held in ICE detention to effectuate third-country removal absent a lawful removal order.”
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“Once he becomes deportable, for the second time, remember, he was deportable the first time and actually got deported,” Bovino told Watters. “When he becomes deportable the second time, we’re going to deport this individual. It’s too bad that we have these activist judges that legislate from the bench and put MS-13 gang members back out on the streets to harm Americans. That’s what we’re doing in these American cities, taking individuals like this ‘Maryland dad’ out of circulation and putting them back where they need to be, and that’s in their country of record.”
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MS-13 is an El Salvadoran prison gang designated a foreign terrorist organization by President Donald Trump.
Abrego Garcia was detained in 2022 by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on suspicion of human trafficking but was released at the behest of the Biden administration FBI, according to the Tennessee Star.
* Original Article:
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/13/border-patrol-chief-gives-update-on-when-feds-can-finally-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia/