A federal judge will soon decide whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the undocumented man living in Maryland whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador by the Trump administration earlier this year thrust him to the center of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, can go free, or if the government should be allowed to deport him to the West African nation of Liberia instead.

During a nearly four-hour long hearing at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis sparred with Department of Justice officials over a host of complicated legal questions, among them the reasons for his proposed deportation to Liberia, whether she had jurisdiction to make such determinations and whether Abrego Garcia can even be removed from the U.S. in the first place.

Though Xinis didn’t issue he

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