A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to continue holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an immigration detention center. He is fighting new deportation efforts following his wrongful removal to El Salvador in March and subsequent return to the U.S. over the summer.

In her ruling, Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ordered that Abrego be released from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania , citing a lack of a final order of removal for him.

“His removal cannot be considered reasonably foreseeable, imminent, or consistent with due process,” Xinis wrote in a memo. She continued, “Since Abrego Garcia’s wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority.”

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