Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in the United States through at least late November as federal courts in Maryland and Tennessee examine whether the Justice Department pursued criminal charges against him in retaliation for his prior legal challenges to deportation orders, according to new filings and court orders.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland, who blocked Abrego Garcia’s deportation in August, on Tuesday approved a new schedule that will allow him to participate in a two-day evidentiary hearing next week in Nashville, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
That hearing, ordered by the federal court in Tennessee, will scrutinize whether prosecutors engaged in “selective” or “vindictive” prosecution stemming from a 2022 traffic stop.
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