BALTIMORE — A federal judge ordered Friday that U.S. immigration officials could not detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia , hours after his release from immigration detention.

Abrego Garcia was appearing Friday morning for a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Maryland. His lawyers asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again.

Officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order, the judge said.

Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. He was last taken into custody in August during a similar check-in.

Abrego Garcia, who was scheduled to appea

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