Kilmar Abrego Garcia listens during a rally ahead of a mandatory check at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, after he was released from detention on Thursday under a judge's order. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from once again detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia , hours after the judge ordered him to be released from an immigration detention facility.

The temporary restraining order issued early Friday by US District Judge Paula Xinis is the latest setback in the US government’s ongoing efforts to deport Abrego Garcia, who has become a national symbol of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies.

After being wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, Abrego Garcia w

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