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Judge blocks administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia until at least October

The judge extended her restraining order until his court challenge is resolved.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer blasts rearrest and threat of deportation to UgandaAn attorney for wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia blasted government officials for rearresting Garcia on Monday in Baltimore and for their intention to deport him to Uganda.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia until at least early October.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said Wednesday she will extend her temporary restraining until Abrego Garcia's latest deportation challenge in court is resolved.

Judge Xinis scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Oct. 6 in the case challenging Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Uganda. She said during a hearing on Wednesday that she will issue a ruling within 30 days of the Oct. 6 hearing.

The judge also said that Abrego Garcia must remain in custody within a 200-mile radius of the court in Maryland. He is currently in a detention center in Virginia.

Judge Xinis said she will not order Abrego Garcia released from immigration custody, saying that issue should be decided by an immigration judge. On Monday, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys moved to reopen his immigration case and apply for asylum.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native, was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which his family and attorneys deny. He was brought back to the U.S. in June to face charges in Tennessee of allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S. while he was living in Maryland, to which has pleaded not guilty.

After being released on Friday while awaiting trial, he was taken into immigration custody upon checking in with the ICE office in Baltimore on Monday, and transferred to a detention center in Tennessee where authorities said he could be deported to Uganda on immigration charges.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Author: Laura Romero and Ely Brown

Source: ABC GMA

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