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JUST IN:
Judge Xinis in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case orders that once he is released from custody in his pending federal criminal case in Tennessee, that the Trump Administration "SHALL NOT" take him into custody and that includes ICE.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.239.0.pdf
JUST IN:
— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:28:25.755Z
Judge Xinis in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case orders that once he is released from custody in his pending federal criminal case in Tennessee, that the Trump Administration "SHALL NOT" take him into custody and that includes ICE.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WHOA. This is massive. Judge Xinis relies on her earlier order requiring ICE to "restore the status quo ante" for Mr. Abrego Garcia prior to his wrongful arrest and removal as justification to bar ICE from immediately re-detaining him should be released on bail.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:31:53.680Z
DOJ is certain to appeal.
Judge Xinis also orders ICE to provide 72 hours notice (excluding weekends and holidays) if they want to deport Mr. Abrego Garcia to a third country.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:40:01.166Z
She says the Trump admin has "done little to assure the Court that absent intervention, Abrego Garciaâs due process rights will be protected"
Full memorandum opinion here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:40:45.484Z
And full order here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Important additional information! The judge in Tennessee just granted Abrego Garcia release on bond with conditions, finding that the DOJ did NOT meet its burden to prove that Mr. Abrego Garcia was a flight risk or such a danger to the community that release must be denied even with conditions.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:46:49.991Z

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(27,308 posts)Bev54
(12,910 posts)not much evidence in the case and made it all up to give their excuse for deporting him.
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,673 posts)...he's already under a deportation order. They can't deport him to El Salvador, but they can send him to a third country.
Bev54
(12,910 posts)We know they won't use any excuse to deport him again and that is the problem the courts are dealing with. They say he is entitled to his day in court under due process and he is suing the Trump government because of it. I am wondering if they will drop those charges now because they don't have much chance of convicting him, as the judges have already said and now they can't deport him without the due process.
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,673 posts)...to CECOT was because he was supposedly MS13; they didn't bring the human trafficking charges until they had to bring him back due to the unlawful deportation, and the assumption is that they only brought those charges so that they could keep him in jail.
Had they not sent him to CECOT in violation of the order to not send him to El Salvador, they could have sent him to a third country months ago.
He entered the country illegally, so they don't really need any other reason to deport him.
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,673 posts)Teacher of the Year
(208 posts)that this guy has a case for asylum for persecution from US if he goes somewhere else.
snot
(11,307 posts)they will likely continue to be used to blackmail important people for corrupt, possibly treasonous purposes in the future.
aggiesal
(10,343 posts)Do I need the sarcasm thingee, or is this too close to reality?
UTUSN
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