Overview

• Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes indicated she will issue a pretrial release order as a 30‑day stay expires, with conditions expected to include electronic monitoring, home detention, and supervised travel to Maryland.
• Defense filings say a private security firm will transport Abrego Garcia to Maryland, where earlier court rulings required him to reside under pretrial services.
• U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis previously barred an immediate ICE pickup in Tennessee, ordered restoration to ICE Baltimore supervision, and required 72 hours’ notice before any attempted removal to a third country.
• An ICE official testified last month that the agency plans to detain him once he is freed and has floated Mexico or South Sudan as possible destinations, though no decision has been made and any action must proceed in Maryland under the court’s guardrails.
• Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador in March and returned in June, has pleaded not guilty to two human‑smuggling charges tied to a 2022 Tennessee stop, with a January trial set and a new motion seeking dismissal for alleged vindictive and selective prosecution; a government response is due early next month.