A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant at the center of political and legal battles as a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s hard-line immigration policies.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis held on Thursday that U.S. officials lacked legal grounds to keep Abrego Garcia in custody and that his ongoing detention appeared to be ¡°constitutionally infirm.¡±
Abrego Garcia has been fighting Trump administration efforts to deport him while also defending against human smuggling charges in Tennessee. U.S. officials¡¯ latest plan had been to send him to Liberia, but a judge has blocked that for now.
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