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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team asked a judge at a hearing Friday to order that he not be removed from the United States without at least 72 hours notice should he be released on bond from detention in Tennessee.
GREENBELT — The family of mistakenly-deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia sought again during a hearing Friday to return him to Maryland, as his attorneys hoped a judge would help prevent him from being quickly deported for a second time.
Judge Paula Xinis proposed a 48-hour hold on deporting Abrego Garcia from the United States again, but the government refused to agree to those terms.
Judge Paula Xinis questioned the Justice Department over the timing of a criminal investigation of Salvadorian migrant Abrego Garcia, who was returned after his erroneous deportation.
The Justice Department was back in court on Friday as the judge grew more and more frustrated. After a hearing the day before ended with an annoyed judge who wasn't able to get any straight answers out of a witness,
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Demonstrators clashed with federal prosecutors outside federal court in Greenbelt Friday over the high-profile Kilmar Abrego Garcia immigration case.
Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.