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Judge says decision on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fate expected by February 12
https://www.fox5dc.com ^ | Jan 12, 2026

Posted on 01/30/2026 9:56:15 PM PST by 11th_VA

The Brief

A federal judge in Maryland said she expects to rule by February on the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

Judge Paula Xinis is considering whether Garcia’s 2019 removal order became final last year, which could affect whether the government can re-detain him.

Xinis said her order blocking the government from re-detaining Garcia remains in effect while she reviews the case.

What we know:

In a brief 20-minute hearing with Garcia’s lawyers and DOJ attorneys, Judge Paula Xinis said she wants to hear arguments on whether Garcia’s 2019 order of removal became final in January of last year.

That could change the calculus of whether to allow the government to re-detain him.

Xinis said after she hears arguments on that narrow issue, she will issue a decision by February 12, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Xinis reiterated that her current order blocking the government from re-detaining Garcia for deportation remains in place.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2019; 202602; 20260212; crime; elsalvador; gangster; garcia; illegals; kag; maryland; marylandman; salvadoran

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Can’t wait … she needs 30 days to find some legal wiggle room
1 posted on 01/30/2026 9:56:15 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Judge Paula Xinis (Obama judge).


2 posted on 01/30/2026 10:05:32 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: 11th_VA

LOL!

A foreign Biden autopen “judge”.


3 posted on 01/30/2026 10:05:52 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: an amused spectator

My bad - a Benedict Obama “judge”.


4 posted on 01/30/2026 10:06:48 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: an amused spectator

Benedict Hussein Obama.


5 posted on 01/30/2026 10:25:53 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump PPP on)
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To: 11th_VA

The wacky lawyers and judges should make the Abrego Kid the governor of Merryland where it is Christmas every day.


6 posted on 01/30/2026 10:49:29 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

She looks like a tranny Harry Potter dwarf.


7 posted on 01/30/2026 10:54:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The DemonRATS sent another female greek judge out the other day to screw over the American people. Can’t remember her name but it was definitely creek. I wonder why America women don’t qualify for these RAT owned “judge” positions.


8 posted on 01/30/2026 10:58:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: 11th_VA
And this is why Schumer wants to change the immigration laws in the DHS funding bill to make federal judges have to be the ones who issue the warrants for deportation instead of the immigration courts.

Not only would they hear the challenges, but by displacing the immigration courts as the body that issues the deportation orders, they are putting state crimes out of their jurisdictions.

That means that ICE would no longer have any warrants to go to state prisons and jails to retrieve illegal aliens for deporations, because federal district court judges won't have the jurisdiction to issue them.

-PJ

9 posted on 01/30/2026 11:10:59 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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How many times we have to correct the record?
Garcia was not a ‘Mariland man’ he was an illegal alien from El Salvador with an order for his deportation on file.
And no, he was not ‘wrongly deported’ the order of deportation said he could be deported to any country, except Guatemala. DHS did not make a mistake. Later it was found out that the judge had meant to write El Salvador.

In any event it is a travesty that human trafficker is still in the USA.


10 posted on 01/30/2026 11:30:54 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: an amused spectator
She was born in Mineola New York suposedly, but at 57-58, not msrried, of Greek descent, and looks kind of butch. I suspect she is probably a lesbian.


11 posted on 01/31/2026 12:41:43 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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“Maryland man”

He is not a citizen. He is a foreign national illegally in Maryland.


12 posted on 01/31/2026 1:22:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 11th_VA

Even Fox News is using propaganda language about the “Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.”


13 posted on 01/31/2026 1:43:59 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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Like the dems can even remember this criminal, your tax dollars at work.


14 posted on 01/31/2026 3:32:15 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Time foe one last cocktail!!


15 posted on 01/31/2026 4:49:23 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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“A federal judge in Maryland said she expects to rule by February on the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.”

Looks like the author has already decided. The blatant lack of the use of the word “allegedly” is telling.

16 posted on 01/31/2026 5:15:40 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: 11th_VA

Why is a federal magistrate ruling over an immigration issue? I thought they did not have authority over these issues.


17 posted on 01/31/2026 6:07:09 AM PST by Yogafist
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Bondi made a grave mistake adhering to a crooked judge’s order to bring him back in the first place because she said she had enough evidence to convict him. Is she too naive to realize no amount of “evidence” will ever suffice to a leftist judge who wants to stick it to this administration?


18 posted on 01/31/2026 7:56:37 AM PST by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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The only good thing about this Kilmer guy is for all the resources the democrats, their media whores, the judiciary, his activist, and his free lawyers a hundred thousand others have been kicked out.


19 posted on 01/31/2026 8:22:33 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: 11th_VA
a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

Surprised they didn't say "a Maryland father..." which the media often say, as if he is some kind of upstanding family man and citizen - and not a wife-beating, gang banging human trafficker.

Yes, this isn't so much as keeping this criminal here as it is about sticking it to the Trump admin.

20 posted on 01/31/2026 8:34:20 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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