A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March , when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administration doubled down, with President Donald Trump going so far as to share a blatantly photoshopped image of “MS-13” tattooed on Abrego Garcia’s hands.

Abrego Garcia was sent to the CECOT super-prison in El Salvador before being returned to the U.S. in June, following court orders demanding that he be sent back to

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