A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said in her order on Thursday that "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority." Xinis said that the absence of a removal order prevents the government from removing Abrego Garcia from the U.S. Earlier this month, government asked the federal judge overseeing Abrego Garcia's immigration case in Maryland to dissolve the ban on Abrego Garcia's removal to Liberia, saying it had received assurances from the Liberian government that he will not be persecuted or tortured. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported in March to El Sa

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