DHS head Noem (Miller in the background) has been chugging along saying it don’t matter what the judges say?
Abrego Garcia IS GONNA be shipped OUT of America….
A federal judge on Monday doubled down that the Trump administration is “absolutely forbidden” from removing mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the U.S., for now.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Obama, blocked Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Uganda until she can hold a hearing to determine whether the administration will let him contest his removal to the third country.
Abrego Garcia’s detention and the bid to deport him comes just three days after he was freed from custody in a criminal case filed against him in federal court in Tennessee. He filed suit after he was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Monday when he reported for a check-in at ICE’s Baltimore field office.
Xinis emphasized Monday that Abrego Garcia isn’t going anywhere, for now.
“Your clients are absolutely forbidden at this juncture to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia from the continental United States,” the judge said. “That is the understanding that we have?”
“Your honor, yes,” Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign replied. “We certainly understand that.”
But the government also suggested that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was “not imminent.”
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Xinis also ordered the government not to move Abrego Garcia from the detention facility in Virginia where his lawyer said he’s being housed, to ensure he has access to counsel as the lawsuit progresses….