Posted on 12/11/2025 9:16:33 AM PST by Miami Rebel
A federal judge in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Thursday ordered Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from ICE custody, capping — for now – an extraordinary, 10-month legal fight that has spanned two continents, multiple federal courts, and prompted dozens of hearings in the aftermath of his removal.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia released from the ICE Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa., ruling that the Trump administration had not obtained the final notice of removal order needed to remove him to a third country.
"Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority," Xinis said in an order Thursday. "For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia’s Petition for immediate release from ICE custody."
The order comes after Xinis last month used an evidentiary hearing to press the government on whether it had the final order needed to deport Abrego Garcia from the U.S. to a third country, including the list of African nations previously identified by Trump officials.
Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign previously suggested that the immigration judge who ruled in 2019 that Abrego Garcia could not be removed back to his home country of El Salvador had "meant," or implied a final order of removal — a notion Xinis dismissed in her ruling Thursday.
"No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia," she said.
The Justice Department is almost certain to appeal her order to a higher court, as Ensign indicated to her in previous hearings.
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Someone needs to post that guy’s pic saying “Aw geez, not this sh*t again!”
Someone shoot the SOB and get him out of our hair.
Another cartel loving judge we need to remove from the bench.
Pronto.
They should definitely release him on the plane to . . . .
IT IS A FOREIGN FEMALE JUDGE TOO!
Gads.... taxpayer dollars at work.... yet again.
Something is up with this guy. Nobody gets this kind of legal attention unless some very powerful and well connected people want it
No... she was born in Mineola, New York.
Tell the judge to go pound sand.
Or what?
And those in hell demand ice water. /spit
“No Kings” douchebags (and some on this very forum) would obviously assume Trump will eject him because he is a “king”, or they want to denigrate him for being slow on this or stalling and like to say “Why hasn’t Trump just removed him? Why hasn’t Trump just sent him off? Trump isn’t doing anything!”
Both types are peas in the same pod, IMO.
Everyone has rights except the taxpayers.....
They just have to pay the bills and suffer while Democrats continue to play games.
They talk about the ‘affordability crisis’ but not the garbage the Democrats and their ideology pull that leads to hit.
Isn’t this guy a member of MS-13 who has been involved in things like human trafficking?
Why are the Democrats so Hell-bent on seeing this guy walk free? In *our* country?
Then again my inner conspiracy theory child asks is/was Garcia a deep state plant/pawn ?
... politics by other means. More of this BS from democrats.
Democrats lost big a year ago—the WH & Congress, all six swing states—this is how they try to still call the shots, since their lust for power equals Sauron’s desire for the Ring.
The lower federal courts are destroying any faith the public had in the impartiality of federal law.
SCOTUS must discipline them if it wants to continue enjoying the deference paid to the judicial branch by the other two branches and most importantly, the People, respect which is the gowns’ only real power.
So, given his background and previous proceedings against him, how hard IS it to get a final notice of removal order? I suppose some other commie judge would find yet another reason to not issue that removal order?
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