A Maryland judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE detention, according to a Thursday court ruling .

Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador earlier this year despite an existing order blocking his deportation. He was returned to the U.S. on human smuggling charges, which he says are false, and was released from criminal custody in August and returned to Maryland.

He was arrested again days later in Baltimore and processed for deportation, with officials marking Uganda as a potential location, as well as several other African nations, including Eswatini, Liberia and Ghana. Still, the plan did not go ahead, according to court documents.

“Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detaine

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