A federal judge in Maryland on Friday approved the transfer of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention in Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee, for a multi-day hearing in his criminal case brought by the Trump administration after an erroneous deportation to El Salvador.

The Trump administration previously planned as soon as Friday to again deport Abrego Garcia, this time to the West African country of Liberia. Abrego Garcia has protections from deportation to his home country of El Salvador after an immigration judge in 2019 ruled that he would face violence if removed there.

Maryland District Judge Paula Xinis will allow for the transfer for his multi-day hearing Nov. 4 and 5, according to court documents.

Xinis, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, is overseein

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