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Judge Bars Abrego Garcia’s Removal and Schedules Oct. 6 Hearing on Planned Uganda Transfer

The order preserves his chance to seek asylum before any transfer to Uganda.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia.
Supporters of Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, gather outside the ICE Baltimore field office on the day he appears for a check-in three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Demonstrators raise their fists on the day Kilmar Abrego, a migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, appears at the ICE Baltimore field office for a check-in three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
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Overview

  • U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis extended a temporary restraining order keeping Kilmar Abrego Garcia in ICE custody within 200 miles of her Maryland court and set an Oct. 6 evidentiary hearing.
  • The court said it will aim to issue a decision within 30 days after the hearing, leaving him in the U.S. at least into October.
  • Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have moved to reopen his immigration case and seek asylum; Justice Department lawyers said DHS could likely complete a reasonable‑fear screening within about two weeks.
  • The administration says it intends to deport him to Uganda and objected to the injunction but will comply; the judge noted the lack of Ugandan assurances compared with written guarantees previously offered by Costa Rica.
  • Separately, his attorneys asked a Tennessee court to restrict officials’ public comments in his human smuggling case, citing prejudicial statements by senior officials as he maintains his denial of MS-13 ties.