US District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee on Monday set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday after MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a lawsuit to block his deportation to Uganda.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week.
Abrego Garcia was an illegal alien residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year and placed in the notorious CECOT prison, however, radical left-wing judges ordered him to be returned to the US.
The wife beater and gang member was previously ordered deported by an immigration judge but he was not to be sent to his home country of El Salvador so the Trump Administration decided to send him to Africa.
Abrego Garcia immediately put up a legal fight to stop his deportation.
“I fear persecution in Uganda on account of my race, nationality, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group. I also fear torture by or at the acquiescence of a public official in that country,” Abrego Garcia said on Saturday.
On Monday, Judge Xinis temporarily blocked the Trump Admin from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia and set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday.
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis is leaning toward issuing another restraining order to block Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immediate deportation to Uganda at least through this week — she wants an evidentiary hearing on Friday.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 25, 2025
Judge Xinis also ordered Abrego not be moved from his detention facility in Virginia.
XINIS orders that Abrego not be moved from his detention facility in Virginia, in order to ensure he has access to counsel.
Xinis asks Ensign if her oral order is enough — knowing Ensign has previously argued that only written orders count. Ensign says the oral order is fine(!)
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 25, 2025
CNN reported:
A federal judge said Monday that she will order officials to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration’s plans to quickly deport him to Uganda.
US District Judge Paula Xinis said during a brief hearing Monday afternoon that she’s planning to stretch out an existing hold on Abrego Garcia’s removal so she can more fully consider whether officials are violating his due process rights, including by deporting him to Uganda even after he said he fears being persecuted or tortured in the African nation.
Last month, a Tennessee-based federal judge previously ordered the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and a Maryland judge, appointed by Barack Obama, immediately blocked ICE from detaining Abrego Garcia.
A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”
He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.
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