U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, rejected the administration’s argument that it could not bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by late Monday evening.
“Neither the United States nor El Salvador have told anyone why he was returned to the very country to which he cannot return, or why he is detained at CECOT,” Xinis wrote, in reference to the prison.
“That silence is telling,” she continued. “As Defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador —let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”
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Xinis, a district judge in Maryland, said that “to avoid clear irreparable harm,
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