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(NewsNation) — Lawyers connected Tuesday are expected to make a timeline for proceedings successful the latest deportation efforts against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland antheral who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador earlier this year.
When helium was detained Monday during a check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials successful Baltimore, the 72-hour countdown began for Abrego Garcia's imaginable deportation to Uganda.
Abrego Garcia filed a caller suit successful the state’s national territory tribunal soon aft helium was detained. Later that aforesaid day, Judge Paula Xinis said she would contented an bid to support him successful the state portion she reviewed the challenge.
He volition stay successful the custody of U.S. Marshals arsenic lawyers for him and the U.S. Justice Department reason whether helium volition beryllium deported upon his merchandise from national custody.
Another proceeding successful the lawsuit is tentatively scheduled for Friday, though nonstop details are not yet known.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from jail
Abrego Garcia's detainment — and his team's effort to situation it — is acold from his first.
The Maryland begetter returned to the United States successful June aft his mistaken deportation to El Salvador's notorious CECOT situation successful March — a usurpation of a tribunal bid preventing him from being returned to his location country.
The Trump medication resisted archetypal ineligible orders to bring Abrego Garcia backmost to the U.S., but helium was yet returned and is present facing federal charges for quality smuggling.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accompanied by his woman Jennifer Vasquez Sura, looks up aft a supplication vigil earlier helium enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tract bureau connected Aug. 25, 2025, successful Baltimore. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
This courtroom sketch depicts Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting successful tribunal during his detention proceeding connected June 25, 2025, successful Nashville, Tenn. (Diego Fishburn via AP)
Supporters of Kilmar Abrego Garcia rally extracurricular the U.S. District Court successful Greenbelt, Md., wherever a proceeding was scheduled to beryllium held connected returning him to Maryland connected July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
He remained successful a Tennessee jail until past week, erstwhile a judge ordered his release.
Days later, Abrego Garcia is erstwhile again successful national custody and awaiting quality astir his future.
Naresh Gehi, founder and main attorney at Gehi and Associates successful New York, told NewsNation the back-to-back detainments are meant to deterioration Abrego Garcia down.
"This is what the authorities typically does — they volition effort to support him successful jailhouse arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable conscionable to fundamentally interruption his tone and to marque definite helium gives up,” Gehi said. “It’s a trial of patience.”
NewsNation's Anna Kutz, Jeff Arnold, Jordan Perkins and Steph Whiteside contributed to this report.
