Washington — A Maryland judge on Thursday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia , a Salvadoran national who was mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year, from immigration custody.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis granted Abrego Garcia's habeas petition to release him. It's a significant victory for Abrego Garcia, whose immigration case became a major flashpoint in President Trump's mass-deportation campaign when he was removed to El Salvador earlier this year. An earlier order had prohibited the U.S. from removing him to his native country because of possible persecution by local gangs.

Xinis, in her order found that there was no final order of removal from the government to deport Abrego Garcia from the United States, despite the Trump ad

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