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A federal judge in Maryland on Monday blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he was arrested by ICE on Monday, delivering a temporary blow to the government’s efforts to remove the Salvadorian migrant at the center of a months-long court fight.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, said Monday that he filed the emergency motion after his client was taken into immigration custody in Baltimore, after he appeared there as a condition of his pretrial release from criminal custody in Tennessee.

The new filing seeks to block Abrego Garcia’s removal to Uganda until his immigration case can play out via the proper channels, ensuring due process protections — including the right t

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