Judge halts removal of Abrego Garcia to Uganda pending legal challenge

Judge halts removal of Abrego Garcia to Uganda pending legal challenge


A federal judge ordered on Monday that the Trump administration must keep Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a Virginia immigration deportation facility as he challenges his removal from the United States.

Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland said the administration is “absolutely forbidden” from removing Abrego Garcia from the continental U.S. and may not move him from his current holding facility, pending a legal challenge by the illegal immigrant over his deportation to Uganda.

During a hearing on Monday, Xinis, who presided over a previous lawsuit filed by Abrego Garcia over his deportation to his native El Salvador despite a protective order preventing him from being deported there, did not give a specific timeline for how long the

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