Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “Maryland man” before he was arrested and deported in March, and a federal judge Wednesday ordered that he must become a Maryland man again once he is released from pretrial detention.
Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee to the court in Maryland, said she feared the Department of Homeland Security would try to hide Mr. Abrego Garcia from her and move to speedily deport him once he is no longer being held in his criminal case in Tennessee.
She forbade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from immediately arresting Mr. Abrego Garcia when he is released in Tennessee and said he must be returned to his previous status in the Maryland community.
Homeland Security denounced the judge as “unhinged” and vowed to find a way to keep the Salvadoran illegal immigrant in custody.
Mr. Abrego Garcia is at the center of the most heated debate over