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Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison
Last edited Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:54 PM - Edit history (4)
Edited to add: check this thread:
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:47 PM: HAPPENING NOW: Judge Paula Xinis sounds inclined to order feds to arrange return of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia
Live reporting by Josh Gerstein:
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U.S. NEWS
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:02 AM EDT, April 4, 2025
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to return him to the U.S.
The White House already has argued against the idea in legal briefs. They have cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member and assert that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction over the matter because the Salvadoran national is no longer in the U.S.
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The 29-year-old had a permit from the Department of Homeland Security to legally work in the U.S., his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said. Abrego Garcia served as a sheet metal apprentice and was pursuing his journeyman license.
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A 10 a.m. rally is scheduled on his behalf in Hyattsville, Maryland, and will include his wife. The court hearing is set for 1 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt outside of Washington, D.C.
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:02 AM EDT, April 4, 2025
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to return him to the U.S.
The White House already has argued against the idea in legal briefs. They have cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member and assert that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction over the matter because the Salvadoran national is no longer in the U.S.
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The 29-year-old had a permit from the Department of Homeland Security to legally work in the U.S., his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said. Abrego Garcia served as a sheet metal apprentice and was pursuing his journeyman license.
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A 10 a.m. rally is scheduled on his behalf in Hyattsville, Maryland, and will include his wife. The court hearing is set for 1 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt outside of Washington, D.C.
United States District Court, District of Maryland, Greenbelt
Court Calendar
Choose "Greenbelt Current Week." You're looking for Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al.
Xinis
1:00 PM Motions Hearing
Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al
8:25-cv-00951-PX
Courtroom: 2C
1:00 PM Motions Hearing
Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al
8:25-cv-00951-PX
Courtroom: 2C
Paula Xinis, District Judge
6500 Cherrywood Lane
Suite 255
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 344-0653
Judge Paula Xinis was born in 1968 in Mineola, New York. Judge Xinis attended Vassar College and the University of Virginia where she graduated with Highest Distinction in 1991 with a B.A. degree. Judge Xinis obtained her J.D. in 1997 from the Yale Law School.
Judge Xinis clerked from 1997 to 1998 for the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She then joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. There, Judge Xinis served as the Research and Writing Attorney Supervisor from 2008 to 2011, and as the Director of Training from 2006 to 2011. Judge Xinis also served as faculty for national and regional training programs sponsored by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Defender Services Division Training Branch. Judge Xinis has lectured on such topics as Effective Sentencing Mitigation, Amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, and Appellate Advocacy. Judge Xinis also taught Appellate Advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in the spring of 2000.
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6500 Cherrywood Lane
Suite 255
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 344-0653
Judge Paula Xinis was born in 1968 in Mineola, New York. Judge Xinis attended Vassar College and the University of Virginia where she graduated with Highest Distinction in 1991 with a B.A. degree. Judge Xinis obtained her J.D. in 1997 from the Yale Law School.
Judge Xinis clerked from 1997 to 1998 for the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She then joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. There, Judge Xinis served as the Research and Writing Attorney Supervisor from 2008 to 2011, and as the Director of Training from 2006 to 2011. Judge Xinis also served as faculty for national and regional training programs sponsored by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Defender Services Division Training Branch. Judge Xinis has lectured on such topics as Effective Sentencing Mitigation, Amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, and Appellate Advocacy. Judge Xinis also taught Appellate Advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in the spring of 2000.
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There's no mention I can find of a line where you can call in and listen to the audio.
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US judge to hear lawsuit of man deported to El Salvador in error
By Mike Scarcella
April 4, 2025 1:02 PM EDT Updated 42 min ago
Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 31, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File
Summary
• Lawyers for Salvadoran migrant seek his return to U.S.
• Trump administration has acknowledged his erroneous deportation
• Administration says it lacks authority to return him
April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Maryland is scheduled to hear arguments on Friday over the erroneous deportation of a Salvadoran man who was flown to El Salvador last month as part of an agreement by President Donald Trump's administration with that country's government to detain alleged gang members.
Attorneys for the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, will ask U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis at a 1 p.m. hearing to force the administration to ask El Salvador to return him to the U.S. and bar the government from continuing to pay El Salvador to detain him.
By Mike Scarcella
April 4, 2025 1:02 PM EDT Updated 42 min ago
Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 31, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File
Summary
• Lawyers for Salvadoran migrant seek his return to U.S.
• Trump administration has acknowledged his erroneous deportation
• Administration says it lacks authority to return him
April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Maryland is scheduled to hear arguments on Friday over the erroneous deportation of a Salvadoran man who was flown to El Salvador last month as part of an agreement by President Donald Trump's administration with that country's government to detain alleged gang members.
Attorneys for the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, will ask U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis at a 1 p.m. hearing to force the administration to ask El Salvador to return him to the U.S. and bar the government from continuing to pay El Salvador to detain him.
