The long-running saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia continues, as two Obama-appointed judges on Wednesday ordered the MS-13 gang member to be released while precluding ICE from arresting him.
Bill Melugin of Fox News reported: “Maryland federal judge Paula Xinis has just issued an order that will block ICE from arresting ‘Maryland man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release on bail in Tennessee for his federal human trafficking charges.
“Judge Xinis is also ordering a 72 hour pause on any effort to deport him to a third party country without ‘sufficient notice’ and ‘due process.’
“Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran illegal alien alleged MS-13 gang member and alleged repeat wife beater, is facing federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee, and a judge there is deciding whether to release him pending trial. The government had indicated it would take him into ICE custody in Tennessee if he was released pending his federal case.
“Judge Xinis has now blocked the Trump administration from taking him into ICE custody upon his release.”
BREAKING: Maryland federal judge Paula Xinis has just issued an order that will block ICE from arresting “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release on bail in Tennessee for his federal human trafficking charges. Judge Xinis is also ordering a 72 hour pause on any effort… pic.twitter.com/JKBfwnPrB8
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 23, 2025
“WTF?!” exclaimed online journalist Nick Sortor in reaction to the news.
“They’re forcing a FOREIGN MS-13 WIFE BEATER back onto our streets. IGNORE THE COURT! ARREST HIM!”
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the RELEASE of El Salvadoran gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia into the U.S., and is BARRING ICE from taking him into custody again
WTF??!
They’re forcing a FOREIGN MS-13 WIFE BEATER back onto our streets
IGNORE THE COURT! ARREST HIM! pic.twitter.com/Ud4MeHBy0t
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 23, 2025
CBS News reported: “The Tennessee judge, Waverly Crenshaw, denied the Justice Department’s request to revoke the magistrate judge’s order allowing Abrego Garcia to be released while awaiting a criminal trial, writing that the government ‘failed to carry its burden of showing that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure Abrego’s appearance or the safety of others.’”
“These rulings are a powerful rebuke of the government’s lawless conduct and a critical safeguard for Kilmar’s due process rights,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney for Abrego Garcia, said.
“A federal judge has now barred ICE from taking him back into custody and ordered that any future deportation attempt must come with advance notice. After the government unlawfully deported him once without warning, this legal protection is essential.”
In an effort to stop being repatriated, Democrat hero/human traffick suspect Kilmar Abrego Garcia claims in court filings he was tortured in custody in his native El Salvador.
El Salvador released videos and photos showing him eating and living well. pic.twitter.com/81cnYB8VQQ
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 4, 2025
A federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”
He and co-conspirators from El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and America are accused of trafficking illegal immigrants from 2016 through 2025.
Garcia pleaded not guilty last month to charges of human trafficking.
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