作者：布雷恩·德皮施、杰克·吉布森 | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月17日下午2:55（东部标准时间） | 更新时间：2026年2月17日下午6:39（东部标准时间）
周二，一名联邦法官阻止特朗普政府重新逮捕萨尔瓦多移民基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（Kilmar Abrego Garcia），并将其送入联邦移民拘留所——这一裁决出台之际，距离他因另一宗刑事案件在纳什维尔出庭的关键日期仅剩几天。
美国地区法官保拉·基尼斯（Paula Xinis）同意将此前阻止美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）立即重新拘留阿布雷戈·加西亚的紧急命令，转换为其律师所寻求的长期禁令救济形式。
她周二表示，特朗普政府未能向法院提供任何“充分理由”，以证明他们计划在“可合理预见的未来”将其驱逐至第三国。相反，她说，他们“一次次空洞地威胁将其驱逐至非洲国家，但根本没有成功的可能”。
这一命令为阿布雷戈·加西亚下周在纳什维尔参加关键听证会扫清了道路，该听证会将审议是否应基于“报复性”和选择性起诉的理由，由另一位联邦法官驳回对他的刑事指控。法庭记录显示，阿布雷戈·加西亚被指控对其妻子实施多次家庭暴力，其妻子在保护令申请中称发生过多次身体虐待事件。她后来撤回了保护令申请，并公开为丈夫辩护。美国国土安全部也表示，他非法居住在美国，并且据称与MS-13（中美洲最大的帮派之一）有联系，反驳了将他描述为“马里兰州男子”的说法。他的律师否认了有关帮派的指控。
[阿布雷戈·加西亚暂时留在美国，法官正在审理案件]
（图片：唐纳德·特朗普总统与一名举着敦促遣返基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚的标语牌的抗议者。图片来源：盖蒂图片社）
基尼斯还表示，政府“没有做任何事情”来向法院证明，阿布雷戈·加西亚在移民和海关执法局的持续拘留符合正当程序。
“被告方没有提供任何证据证明，继续拘留阿布雷戈·加西亚符合正当程序，”基尼斯周二表示。
她列举了特朗普政府在去年8月阿布雷戈被ICE重新拘留至12月基尼斯最终下令释放期间，为将其驱逐至四个非洲国家（被认定为所谓的“第三国”）所做的种种努力。
美国司法部和国土安全部未立即回应福克斯新闻数字版的置评请求。
国土安全部和司法部高级官员此前曾暗示，他们将对基尼斯的命令提起上诉。特朗普政府官员一直严厉批评基尼斯和其他主持驱逐案件的联邦法官，指责他们越权。
“这一命令缺乏任何合法依据，我们将在法庭上与之一战到底，”国土安全部助理部长特里西亚·麦克劳克林在回应法院较早前的紧急命令时表示。
基尼斯周二表示，政府“拒绝立即将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐至哥斯达黎加”——他本人指定的首选第三国，而是试图“虚张声势地将他驱逐至三（或四个）个非洲国家”。
“事实上，自2025年8月阿布雷戈·加西亚从刑事拘留中获释以来，被告方一次次空洞地威胁将其驱逐至非洲国家，但根本没有成功的可能，”基尼斯说。
[阿布雷戈·加西亚的律师要求美国法官在持续的刑事案件中下令遣返其回马里兰州]
（图片：基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（右）和其兄弟塞萨尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（中）于2025年8月25日抵达位于巴尔的摩的移民和海关执法局现场办公室。图片来源：美联社/斯蒂芬妮·斯卡布罗）
特朗普政府此前曾试图将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐至利比里亚、埃斯瓦蒂尼、乌干达和短暂的加纳，但均未成功。
基尼斯在11月底指出，政府必须先获得最终的驱逐令才能采取这些措施，她在周二的备忘录中再次强调，政府尚未获得该命令。
“因此，他必须遵守移民和海关执法局已施加的严格释放条件，并继续接受田纳西州刑事案件的审理，”基尼斯说。
[美国法官在马拉松式听证会后誓言“尽快”裁定阿布雷戈·加西亚的命运]
自2026年3月以来，阿布雷戈·加西亚的案件一直处于法律和政治漩涡的中心。当时，特朗普政府在违反2019年法院命令的情况下，将他驱逐回萨尔瓦多，而特朗普官员承认这是一次“行政错误”。基尼斯当时下令将阿布雷戈·加西亚“立即”送回美国。
他最终于2025年6月被送回美国，在纳什维尔被联邦拘留，并因2022年一次交通拦截中涉嫌走私被拘留。
司法部后来告诉基尼斯，在阿布雷戈·加西亚被关押在萨尔瓦多监狱的同时，他们已启动刑事调查并向大陪审团提交了证据，而政府律师当时却告诉法院，美国无权下令将其遣返。
（图片：一名女子在纳什维尔美国地区法院外举着萨尔瓦多移民基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚的照片。法官下令特朗普政府官员在1月份出庭作证，以审议阿布雷戈基于“报复性起诉”要求驳回案件的动议。图片来源：盖蒂图片社）
下周在纳什维尔的听证会将围绕驳回其刑事指控的动议展开，理由是“报复性”和选择性起诉。
审理此案的美国地区法官韦弗利·克伦肖（Waverly Crenshaw）在10月裁定，阿布雷戈·加西亚已证明“存在合理可能性”，即针对他的刑事案件是司法部报复性起诉的结果。
克伦肖下令特朗普政府向法院提交内部文件，并传唤政府证人就提起诉讼的决定作证。
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Judge orders Abrego Garcia free from ICE custody, citing lack of gov’t action | Fox News
By Breanne Deppisch, Jake Gibson | Fox News
Published February 17, 2026 2:55pm EST | Updated February 17, 2026 6:39pm EST
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from re-arresting Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia into federal immigration custody — an update that comes just days before he is slated to appear in Nashville for a key court date in a separate criminal case.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to convert her previous emergency order blocking ICE from immediately re-detaining Abrego Garcia into a longer-term form of injunctive relief sought by his lawyers.
She said Tuesday that the Trump administration failed to provide the court with any “good reason to believe” that they plan to remove him to a third country in the “reasonably foreseeable future.” Instead, she said, they “made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of success.”
The order clears the way for Abrego Garcia to participate in a key hearing in Nashville next week on whether a separate federal judge should dismiss his criminal case on the grounds of “vindictive” and selective prosecution. Abrego Garcia was accused in court records of repeated domestic violence against his wife, who alleged multiple incidents of physical abuse in protective order filings. She later withdrew the protective order request and has defended her husband publicly. The Department of Homeland Security has also said he was living in the U.S. illegally and has alleged ties to MS-13, disputing portrayals of him as simply a “Maryland man.” His attorneys have denied the gang allegations.
[ABREGO GARCIA REMAINS IN US FOR NOW AS JUDGE TAKES CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT]
President Donald Trump and a protester holding a sign urging the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.(Getty Images)
Xinis also said the government has “done nothing” to show the court that Abrego Garcia’s continued detention in ICE custody is “consistent with due process.”
“Respondents have done nothing to show that Abrego Garcia’s continued detention in ICE custody is consistent with due process,” Xinis said Tuesday.
She ticked through a list of the Trump administration’s efforts to remove Abrego Garcia to a list of four African nations it had identified as so-called “third countries” of removal in the months between August, when Abrego was re-detained by ICE, and December, when Xinis ultimately ordered his release.
The Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Senior DHS and Justice Department officials previously suggested they would appeal Xinis’ orders. Trump officials have been sharply critical of Xinis and other federal judges presiding over deportation cages, whom they have repeatedly accused of overstepping their authority as a district judge.
“This order lacks any valid legal basis, and we will continue to fight this tooth and nail in the courts,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the court’s earlier emergency order.
Xinis said Tuesday that the administration “refused to procure Abrego Garcia’s immediate removal to Costa Rica,” the location he had identified as his preferred third country of removal, in favor of what she said was attempted “phantom removals” by the government to send Abrego to “three (maybe four) African countries.”
“Indeed, since Abrego Garcia secured his release from criminal custody in August 2025, respondents have made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of success,” Xinis said.
[ABREGO GARCIA LAWYERS ASK US JUDGE TO ORDER RETURN TO MARYLAND AMID ONGOING CRIMINAL CASE]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, right, and his brother Cesar Abrego Garcia, center, arrive at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025.(AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
The Trump administration previously tried and failed to remove Abrego Garcia to the African countries of Liberia, Eswatini, Uganda and briefly, Ghana.
Xinis noted in late November that the government could not take any of those steps without the final notice of removal order, which she reiterated Tuesday in the memo order that the government had not obtained.
“Thus, he must remain on the stringent release conditions already imposed by ICE and in the Tennessee Criminal Matter,” Xinis said.
[US JUDGE VOWS TO RULE ‘SOON’ ON ABREGO GARCIA’S FATE AFTER MARATHON HEARING]
Abrego Garcia’s status has been at the center of a legal and political maelstrom since March, when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador, in violation of a 2019 court order and in what Trump officials acknowledge was an “administrative error.” Xinis ordered then that Abrego Garcia be “immediately” returned to the U.S.
He was eventually returned to the U.S. in June, where he was taken into federal custody in Nashville and detained on human smuggling charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop.
The Justice Department later told Xinis it had opened the criminal investigation and presented it to a grand jury at the same time that Abrego Garcia was detained in a Salvadoran prison, and at the same time as government lawyers were telling the court that the U.S. was powerless to order his return.
A woman holds a photo of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia in front of the U.S. District Court in Nashville. A judge ordered Trump officials to testify in court in January to weigh Abrego’s motion to dismiss on the grounds of “vindictive” prosecution.(Getty Images)
Next week’s hearing in Nashville will be centered on a motion to dismiss Abrego Garcia’s criminal case for “vindictive” and selective prosecution.
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The judge overseeing that case, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, had ruled in October that Abrego Garcia had established a “reasonable likelihood” that the criminal case against him was the result of vindictive prosecution by the Justice Department.
Crenshaw had ordered the Trump administration to produce for the court internal documents and government witnesses to testify about its decision to bring the case.
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