Judge temporarily bars Kilmar Abrego Garca's deportation to Uganda [View all]
Source: Washington Post
August 25, 2025 at 12:47 p.m. EDT
A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred Kilmar Abrego García’s deportation to Uganda until she can hold a hearing to examine whether the Trump administration will give him an opportunity to contest his removal to that country.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued that order from the bench, hours after Homeland Security officials detained him during a required check-in at the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore and said they’d begun processing him for removal.
The effort to remove Abrego comes just three days after he was freed from criminal custody by another federal judge, in Tennessee, to await trial on migrant smuggling charges. Trump officials had insisted Abrego would “never go free” in the United States, and ICE notified him shortly after his release Friday that the agency intended to seek his removal to Africa within days.
But during Monday’s court hearing, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said that regardless of Xinis’ order, Abrego’s deportation was "not imminent.” “Third-country removals often take some time,” he said.
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