NOW: Emergency conference before Judge Paula Xinis on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's motion to be returned to MD from TN

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HAPPENING NOW: Emergency conference before Judge Paula Xinis on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s motion to be returned to the district of Maryland following release from criminal custody in Tennessee 🧵

Here's the motion, filed earlier today:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.203.0.pdf

Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion For An Order To Return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia To The District Of Maryland After Release In The Tennessee Criminal Proceedings When his custody in the Tennessee criminal case ends, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
should return here, to the District of Maryland, where his civil litigation began and remains. The
Government has stated that once Abrego Garcia is released from criminal custody, it will take him into immigration custody and again try to remove him to El Salvador, where it illegally removed
him over three months ago. Plaintiffs therefore move under the All Writs Act and the Court's inherent equitable authority for an order directing the Government to (1) return Abrego Garcia to
the District of Maryland immediately upon his release from confinement in the criminal proceedings ongoing in the Middle District of Tennessee, see United States v. Abrego Garcia, No.
3:25-cr-00115 (M.D. Tenn.), and (2) refrain from removing Abrego Garcia from the continental
United States or transferring him outside this District (other than to travel to Tennessee to
participate in the criminal proceedings) absent further order of this Court.
Plaintiffs file this motion on an emergency basis because on June 22, 2025, the Tennessee
district court denied the Government's motion to continue to detain Abrego Garcia in criminal
custody, see Exhibit A, and on June 25, the Tennessee court denied the Government's motion to
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June 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency conference before Judge Paula Xinis on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s motion to be returned to the district of Maryland following release from criminal custody in Tennessee 🧵

Here's the motion, filed earlier today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T17:05:24.891Z

[D. Spaulding]

1. They are going to detain him as soon as he leaves the jail, and immediately

remove him from the country.

"Federal prosecutors said Thursday they are planning to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release from a Tennessee jail.

The U.S. would remove the Maryland man once held in El Salvador's CECOT prison, to a separate country, according to the Associated Press."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5371827-us-plans-to-initiate-abrego-garcia-removal-proceedings-prosecutors-say/