Judge scolds Justice Department for 'refusal' to detail deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 3:14 PM EDT, July 11, 2025


GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland scolded the Trump administration on Friday for its “utter refusal” to detail its deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including where the government plans to send him and whether he’ll get a chance to fight his expulsion before he’s whisked away.

The Salvadoran national could be released from a Tennessee jail as soon as next Wednesday to await trial on human smuggling charges. U.S. immigration officials have said they would immediately detain him and begin deportation proceedings.

“I’m deeply concerned that if there’s not some restraint on you, Mr. Abrego will be on another plane to another country,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis told Justice Department lawyers on Friday.

Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint over Republican President Donald Trump’s immigration policies when he was wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador in March. That expulsion violated a U.S. immigration judge’s order in 2019 that shields Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador because he likely faces threats of gang violence there.

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[wolfie001]

1. They have to keep this under wraps because everything they're engaging in now is illegal

Blech-blond Bondi is a nazi slug.

[bluestarone]

2. Question. If Garcia sues TSF, and his administration for his illegal deportation, woul;dn't that keep him in America

Until lawsuit is heard?

[slightlv]

5. You'd think "yes" would be the obvious answer...

but in trumps world of today? I wouldn't put money on it!

[NYC Liberal]

3. Constant "scolding" and "angry rebukes" from judges but no actual action

How many times did Trump violate court orders during his criminal trial and the other cases? The judges just kept saying “If you do this one more time…”

If you or I violated direct orders, we’d be held in contempt the first time.

She’s “deeply concerned.” And when he gets deported again, then what? Another “strong rebuke”?

[kacekwl]

4. This country seems to have

an incredibly large bunch of weak stick judges.

[slightlv]

6. If enforcement (which falls under the Executive Branch)

refuses to do their jobs, the judges are kind of in a lurch... between a rock and a hard space, so to speak. A judge can fine, hand down contempt charges, etc., but if the enforcement isn't there, what good are the pronouncements?

[kacekwl]

7. That is the problem.

Punishment is not being handed down. Just scolding.