NonilexDec 12

Nice! Federal Judge #Xinis issues order to prohibit immigration officials from rearresting & detaining #KilmarAbregoGarcia

Kilmar Abrego Garcia walked away after a scheduled appointment at an #ICE field office on Friday to the cheers of a crowd assembled outside. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking #immigration officials from detaining him.

#Trump #law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CivilRights #fascism
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Judge prohibits immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office after a federal judge ordered that officials could not detain him. Abrego Garcia appeared Friday for the appointment at a Maryland ICE office, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. His lawyers asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again. The judge says officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order. Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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#KilmarAbregoGarcia appeared for the appointment at an #ICE field office, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. His lawyers had asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again & he walked out of the building surrounded by cheering supporters after the appearance.

#Trump #law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState

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Ofcls cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order, #US District Judge Paula #Xinis in Maryland said. She wrote that #KilmarAbregoGarcia is likely to succeed on the merits of any further request for relief from #ICE #detention.

“For the public to have any faith in the orderly administration of justice, the Court’s narrowly crafted remedy cannot be so quickly & easily upended without further briefing & consideration,” she wrote.

#law

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…#KilmarAbregoGarcia on Friday stopped at a news conference outside the building, escorted by a group of supporters chanting “We are all Kilmar!”

“I stand before you a free man & I want you to remember me this way, with my head held up high,” Abrego Garcia said through a translator. “I come here today with so much hope & I thank God who has been with me since the start with my family.”

He urged people to keep fighting.

#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers

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“I stand here today with my head held high & I will continue to fight & stand firm against all of the injustices this government has done upon me,” #KilmarAbregoGarcia said. “Regardless of this administration, I believe this is a country of laws & I believe that this injustice will come to an end.”

After Abrego Garcia spoke, he went through security at the field office, escorted by supporters.

#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism

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When Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, announced to the crowd assembled outside that his client would walk back out the field office’s doors again, he stressed that the legal fight was not over.

“Yesterday’s order from Judge #Xinis & now the temporary restraining order this morning represent a victory of #law over #power,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said.

#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #StateSponsoredAbduction

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#ICE freed #KilmarAbregoGarcia just before 5PM Thursday in response to a ruling from #Xinis, who wrote federal authorities detained him after his return to the #US without any legal basis.

…The 2019 settlement found he had a “well founded fear” of danger in #ElSalvador…. [But the #Trump admin deported him there anyway. To #CECOT, a prison for terrorists notorious for its #HumanRights abuses.] So instead ICE has been seeking to deport him to a series of African countries.

#law #immigration

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#KilmarAbregoGarcia has sued, claiming the #Trump admin is illegally using the removal process to punish him for the public embarrassment caused by his #deportation.

In her order releasing Garcia, #Xinis wrote that federal authorities “did not just stonewall” the court, “They affirmatively misled the tribunal.” Xinis also rejected the government’s argument that she lacked jurisdiction to intervene on a final removal order for Abrego Garcia, because she found no such order was ever filed.

#law