Judge Skewers Defiant Trump DOJ In Abrego Garcia Case
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team asked a judge at a hearing Friday to order that he not be removed from the United States without at least 72 hours notice should he be released on bond from detention in Tennessee.
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Judge Paula Xinis proposed a 48-hour hold on deporting Abrego Garcia from the United States again, but the government refused to agree to those terms.
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GREENBELT — The family of mistakenly-deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia sought again during a hearing Friday to return him to Maryland, as his attorneys hoped a judge would help prevent him from being quickly deported for a second time.
The Trump administration hasn’t decided where it would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he is freed from a Tennessee jail.
The Justice Department was back in court on Friday as the judge grew more and more frustrated. After a hearing the day before ended with an annoyed judge who wasn't able to get any straight answers out of a witness,