A federal judge in Maryland has granted a preliminary judicial order and ordered the Government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, Maryland’s man who was deported to El Salvador by mistake, Monday.
“I will grant the preliminary judicial order motion that I have reviewed, and I will read this word by word, so that there is no dispute that the oral order is the written order,” said the US district judge. UU. Paula Xinis at the Freday hearing, making a reference to the case of the alien enemies law in which the Government failed to carry out the oral order of another judge.
“Therefore, the two defendants are ordered to facilitate the return of the plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego García to the United States no later than 11:59 pm on Monday, April 7, 2025,” Judge Xinis said.
Abrego García, despite having protected the legal status, was sent to the notorious prison of Cecot in El Salvador after an “administrative error” of the Trump administration.
The Government has recognized the error, but said in a previous court that it presents that because Abrego García was no longer in custody of the United States, the court cannot order that they return it to the United States, nor can the court order El Salvador to return it.
Last month, Abrego García, who has an American citizen and 5 -year -old son, was arrested by ICE officers who “informed him that his immigration status had changed,” according to his lawyers. He was arrested and then transferred to a detention center in Texas, after which he was sent to the famous Cecot prison in El Salvador, along with more than 200 alleged members of Venezuelan gangs, on March 15.
This photo provided by home, an immigrant defense organization, in April 2025, shows Kilmar Abrego García.
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Abrego García entered the United States in 2011 when he was 16 to escape the violence of gangs in El Salvador, according to his lawyers. His lawyers say that in 2019, a confidential informant “had reported that Abrego García was an active member” of the MS-13 gang. Abrego García then submitted an I-589 asylum application, and although he was found removable, an immigration judge “gave him the retention of the removal to El Salvador,” lawyers said.
Abrego García’s lawyers say that he “is not a member or does not have affiliation with a Aragua train, MS-13, or any other criminal or street gang” and said that the United States government “has never produced an evidence iota to support this infallible accusation.”
On Tuesday, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, while recognizing the government’s mistake by sending him to El Salvador, called Abrego García, a MS-13 leader.
“The administration maintains the position that this individual who was deported to El Salvador and will not return to our country was a member of the brutal and vicious gang MS-13,” Leavitt said.