The federal judge temporarily prohibits Abrego Garcia from deportation to Uganda

A federal judge from Maryland blocked the Trump administration on Monday to immediately deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Uganda after being arrested by immigration officials and the application of customs a few hours earlier, bringing a temporary blow to the efforts of the government to withdraw the Salvadoral migrant at the center of a fight of the Court of a month.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, lawyer for Abrego Garcia, said on Monday that he had filed the emergency request after his client had been placed in police custody at the Ice field office in Baltimore, after it appeared as a condition for his preliminary liberation from the criminal guard.

The new file asks a judge to block the withdrawal of Abrego Garcia from the United States until his immigration case can take place via the appropriate channels, guaranteeing protections of the regular procedure – including the right to a reasonable fear interview before being transferred to a third country.

Judge Paula Xinis said she was planning to move quickly by weighing the emergency request, indicating both that lawyers from the Ministry of Justice and ABREGO Garcia lawyers would confide in a proposed information calendar, with an eye towards Friday as a possible date for a hearing of evidence. The judge said she would make decisions until after the hearing.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer, speak to supporters outside a Baltimore ice field office, Maryland. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

Xinis noted at the beginning that she thought that an extension of her current temporary non-compliance order could be “necessary”, in the light of the declared plans of the administration to expel Abrego Garcia in Uganda, even if it recognized that the information which had previous was preliminary.

She also cited daylight between the plea offer offered to Abrego Garcia at the end of last week – which would allow her to be sent to Costa Rica as a free individual in exchange for guilty guilty to criminal accusations against him – and the lack of declared insurance of Uganda, the East African Nation agreed to accept the expelled migrants of the United States a few days earlier.

She noted that there is not a known proposal from Uganda detailing the protections that Bouo Garcia would have in the country, including the ability to travel freely through its borders, compared to what Costa Rica provided, which included insurance that he would live freely in the country and have residence documents or refugee status.

Above all, Uganda has provided no known insurance that Greo Garcia would not be comfortable, nor returned to Salvador, after being expelled to the country.

“There is nothing for the record in this regard,” said Xinis, noting that the silence of Uganda “is certainly taken in contrast” as for what Costa Rica has offered.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer, are seen outside the Ice field office in Baltimore, Maryland, August 25, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

Although Xinis highlighted the information before it was preliminary, and the Trump administration “can certainly repair the ship” by providing contrary evidence, it said: “The contrast is significant”, at least for the moment.

Before postponing the court, she also ordered the Trump administration to keep Abrego Garcia in the same Ice detention center in Virginia, where he was moved after his arrest on Monday, after his lawyers quoted the worries that Ice will withdraw this evening.

The prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice Drew Ensign did not immediately exclude that the possibility, prompted him to order him to be kept.

She also repeatedly reiterated that the government had to comply with the court.

“Your customers are absolutely prohibited at this stage to withdraw Mr. Abrego Garcia from the United States Continental,” she spoke to Ensign, who accepted.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, right, and his brother Cesar Abrego Garcia, center, arrive at the immigration and customs field office in Baltimore, Monday, August 25, 2025. (AP photo / Stephanie Scarbrough)

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“I’m going to take it from you, as a court officer,, And on behalf of your customers, that there is the most complete intention to respect these orders, “said Xinis, before following again.” Is it correct? “”

“That’s right, your honor,” said Ensign.