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In reply to the discussion: Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody at appointment [View all]riversedge
(77,643 posts)33. Xinis also said that if the government intends to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, it needs to provide 72 hours'
Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained at ICE office in Maryland
Xinis also said that if the government intends to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, it needs to provide 72 hours' notice.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kilmar-abrego-garcia-check-ice-maryland-deportation-threat/story?id=124944566
The Salvadoran native is facing possible deportation to Uganda.
By Laura Romero
August 25, 2025, 8:49 AM
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He was brought back to the U.S. in June to face charges in Tennessee of allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S. while he was living in Maryland. He has pleaded not guilty.
In July, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered that, should he be released while awaiting trial, Abrego Garcia be placed under ICE supervision in Maryland, where he was living with his wife and children before he was mistakenly deported in March, "to "provide the kind of effective relief to which a wrongfully removed alien is entitled upon return."
Xinis also said that if the government intends to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, it needs to provide 72 hours' notice.
The order allowed the Trump administration to initiate "lawful immigration proceedings" when Abrego Garcia returned to Maryland. The immigration proceedings may or may not include "lawful arrest, detention and eventual removal," Xinis said in July...............
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I said yesterday this might happen. It has happened to others who showed up for immigration appointments......
riversedge
Aug 25
#9
would not tell lawyers why he was being taken, or where - that's kidnapping, not taking into custody (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 25
#11
Kilmar Abrego Garcia files habeas petition over his recent detention and impending deportation.
LetMyPeopleVote
Aug 25
#13
Maybe these courts could start doing zoom calls to protect people from getting kidnaped going to these hearings.
1WorldHope
Aug 25
#29
I wish, with prior approval of the Canadian government of course, someone had spirited him over the border
Vinca
Aug 25
#32
Xinis also said that if the government intends to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, it needs to provide 72 hours'
riversedge
Aug 25
#33
Deadline: Legal Blog-Abrego's criminal case was always a farce. The government's latest actions show why.
LetMyPeopleVote
Aug 25
#38