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DHS Official Criticizes Abrego Garcia’s TikTok as Gag Order Limits Agency Speech

The post underscores tensions over a court order that restricts official commentary on Abrego Garcia’s criminal case.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 12: Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks to supporters as he arrives for his first check-in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Office the day after a federal judge ordered his release from a detention in Pennsylvania, on December 12, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. An undocumented immigrant who had been living in the United States since 2011, Abrego Garcia was detained by federal agents and deported to the CECOT prison in El Salvador in March 2025, which the Trump Administration called "an administrative error." (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives at the United States District Court District of Maryland, on December 22, 2025, in Greenbelt, Maryland.
GREENBELT, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 22: Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura and his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg at U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on December 22, 2025 in Greenbelt, Maryland. Abrego Garcia, a longtime Maryland resident who was deported to the high-security CECOT prison in El Salvador, then sent back to the U.S. and released after the court found his detention unlawful, attended a hearing on whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may re-detain him. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin reposted a video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia lip-syncing on TikTok and complained on X that DHS is under a judge’s gag order.
  • A federal judge in Tennessee previously barred DHS and DOJ from making prejudicial statements about Abrego Garcia in the human smuggling case.
  • U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis extended a temporary order preventing ICE from re-detaining Abrego Garcia after the government failed to produce a valid final removal order.
  • The Tennessee trial has been canceled, with a January 28 hearing set to examine whether prosecutors pursued the case vindictively.
  • Officials are seeking a third country for removal, and defense attorneys say Costa Rica has indicated it would accept him.