STORY: :: Judge orders wrongly deported Maryland man be returned to the U.S. from El Salvador
:: April 4, 2025
:: Greenbelt, Maryland
:: Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Attorney for family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
“Judge Xinis granted the preliminary injunction and ordered that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be brought back to the United States by 11:59 p.m. on Monday. She found that the government did not dispute that there was no legal basis whatsoever for his deportation. She found that the government’s arguments that she was powerless to order him brought back to the United States were without legal merit and she found that he was suffering irreparable harm with every day that goes by while he is separated from his family and while he’s detained under such harsh conditions in the infamous CECOT prison.” // “He’s not being detained based on any Salvadoran legal process, but rather he’s being detained because the United States government has requested that he be detained. And so for that reason, she found that the defendants do have the ability to bring him back to the United States. And she ordered it.”
:: Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
“I want to say thank you to everyone that has helped us, that has supported us in fighting this, and we will continue fighting for Kilmar, for my husband. Thank you.”
The U.S. has already acknowledged Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported in error as part of three planeloads of migrants flown out last month over alleged ties to violent gangs.
But the administration has argued it has no legal authority to bring him back to the country, though Abrego Garcia’s lawyers dispute that.