On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, 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, an illegal alien residing in Maryland, 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 U.S.
The wife beater and gang member was previously ordered deported by an immigration judge, but instead of being sent to his home country of El Salvador, the Trump Administration decided to deport him to Africa. He immediately launched a legal battle to block 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 administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia and scheduled an evidentiary hearing for this Friday. The Obama judge also ordered that Abrego not be moved from his detention facility in Virginia.
As reported by CNN:
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 ordered the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and a Maryland judge appointed by Barack Obama immediately blocked ICE from detaining him.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was recently indicted by a Tennessee federal grand jury for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”
He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport migrants and one count of unlawfully transporting undocumented migrants.
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