周二，一名联邦法官阻止了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——这一最新进展发生在他即将前往纳什维尔参加另一起刑事案件关键庭审的前几天。
美国地区法官保拉·西尼丝（Paula Xinis）同意将她之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，转为其律师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“充分理由让人相信”他们计划在“可合理预见的未来”将他驱逐到第三国。相反，她说，他们“一次又一次地空口威胁要将他驱逐到非洲国家，而这些驱逐根本没有实际成功的可能。”
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，听证会将讨论另一位联邦法官是否应基于“报复性”和选择性起诉为由驳回对他的刑事案件。法庭记录显示，阿布雷戈·加西亚被指控多次对其妻子实施家庭暴力，其妻子在保护令申请中称有多起身体虐待事件。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，并且被指与MS-13帮派有关联，驳斥了将他简单描述为“马里兰州男子”的说法。他的律师否认了帮派指控。
特朗普总统与一名举着敦促将基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚送回的抗议者。（盖蒂图片社）
西尼丝还表示，政府没有做任何事情来向法院证明继续拘留阿布雷戈·加西亚符合正当程序。
“被告方没有提供任何证据表明阿布雷戈·加西亚在移民和海关执法局的继续拘留符合正当程序，”西尼丝周二表示。
她详细列举了特朗普政府在今年8月（阿布雷戈被ICE重新拘留）至12月（西尼丝最终下令释放他）期间，试图将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐到其认定的四个非洲国家（所谓的“第三国”）的种种举措。
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表示，他们将对西尼丝的命令提出上诉。特朗普政府官员对西尼丝和其他主持驱逐案件的联邦法官进行了严厉批评，多次指责这些法官越权。
“这项命令缺乏任何合法依据，我们将在法庭上为此寸步不让，继续抗争，”国土安全部助理部长特里西亚·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）在回应法院此前的紧急命令时表示。
西尼丝周二称，政府“拒绝将阿布雷戈·加西亚立即驱逐到他指定的首选第三国哥斯达黎加”，反而试图进行“虚幻的驱逐”，将他送往“三（或许四个）个非洲国家”。
“事实上，自阿布雷戈·加西亚于2025年8月从刑事拘留中获释以来，被告方一次又一次地空口威胁要将他驱逐到非洲国家，而这些驱逐根本没有实际成功的可能，”西尼丝表示。
阿布雷戈·加西亚律师要求美国法官在刑事案审理期间下令将其送回马里兰州
图片47：基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚在移民和海关执法局拘留中
2025年8月25日，基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（右）和他的兄弟塞萨尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（中）抵达巴尔的摩移民和海关执法局现场办公室。（美联社照片/斯蒂芬妮·斯卡布罗）
特朗普政府此前曾试图将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐到利比里亚、埃斯瓦蒂尼、乌干达，并短暂尝试驱逐到加纳这四个非洲国家，但均未成功。
西尼丝在11月底指出，政府若不提供最终的驱逐令通知，就无法采取任何这些措施。她周二在备忘录令中再次强调，政府并未获得此类通知。
“因此，他必须继续遵守移民和海关执法局已施加的严格释放条件，并继续参与田纳西州的刑事案件，”西尼丝表示。
美国法官在马拉松式听证会之后誓言“很快”就阿布雷戈·加西亚的命运作出裁决
自3月以来，阿布雷戈·加西亚的身份一直是法律和政治风暴的中心。当时，他被违反2019年法院命令驱逐回萨尔瓦多，特朗普政府官员承认这是一起“行政错误”。西尼丝当时下令将阿布雷戈·加西亚“立即”送回美国。
他最终于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人口而被拘留。
司法部后来向西尼丝表示，在阿布雷戈·加西亚被关押在萨尔瓦多监狱期间，他们同时展开了刑事调查并向大陪审团提交了相关证据，而政府律师当时却告诉法院美国无力下令将他送回。
图片49：一名女子在田纳西州中区美国法院前举着基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚的标语。阿布雷戈·加西亚今年早些时候被驱逐到萨尔瓦多的CECOT监狱，特朗普政府官员称这是一起“行政错误”。图片来源：盖蒂图片社
一名女子在纳什维尔美国地方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。一名法官下令特朗普政府官员在1月份出庭作证，以审议阿布雷戈以“报复性”起诉为由提出的驳回动议。（盖蒂图片社）
西尼丝一直对特朗普政府持对抗姿态，在法庭上严厉驳斥其论点。今年6月，她批评在阿布雷戈·加西亚案中加快发现程序过程中提交的信息不足，称政府提交的文件“模糊、回避且不完整”，并表示这表明“故意和恶意拒绝遵守发现义务”。12月，她指责政府阻挠她获取ICE计划将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐到几个非洲国家的详细信息，并称司法部律师“故意误导法庭”。
下周在纳什维尔的听证会将围绕一项驳回动议展开，该动议称对阿布雷戈·加西亚的刑事指控是“报复性”和选择性起诉的结果。
审理此案的法官美国地区法官韦弗利·克伦肖（Waverly Crenshaw）于10月裁定，阿布雷戈·加西亚已证明“有合理可能性”表明对他的刑事案件是司法部报复性起诉的结果。
克伦肖已下令特朗普政府向法院提供内部文件，并让政府证人就其提起诉讼的决定作证。
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
Image 47: Kilmar Abrego-Garcia ICE Custody
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)
Xinis has maintained a confrontational posture toward the Trump administration, sharply rebuking its arguments in court. In June, she criticized what she described as a lack of information submitted as part of an expedited discovery process she ordered in Abrego Garcia’s case, calling the government’s filings “vague, evasive and incomplete,” and saying they demonstrated a “willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations.” In December, she accused the government of stonewalling her efforts to obtain details about ICE’s plans to deport Abrego Garcia to several African countries and said DOJ lawyers “affirmatively misled the tribunal.”
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.