A representative of the U_S_ Attorney’s office has claimed in federal court in Tennessee that the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego-Garcia with human smuggling was his alone while a Homeland Security agent has testified that the case against Abrego Garcia “just kept getting stronger.”.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it.

A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the U.S. government has no viable plan for deporting him.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure.

Immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands.

A federal judge has canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in its human smuggling case against him.

A federal judge says Kilmar Abrego Garcia should remain free for now while she considers the government's arguments for detaining him in immigration custody.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's immigration policies.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office after a federal judge ordered that officials could not detain him.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday.

A federal judge in Maryland says she will rule as soon as possible on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from immigration custody.

The longest U.S. government shutdown in history is officially over, but the fallout will continue to hit federally funded defense lawyers and the people they represent.

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U.S. government attorneys say they have cleared all the hurdles needed to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia.

A federal judge in Tennessee has warned of possible sanctions against top Trump administration officials if they continue to make inflammatory statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that could prejudice his coming trial.

A Maryland federal judge wants the government to assure it will not deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia before she has lifted an injunction barring his removal from the U.S. The Salvadoran national's mistaken deportation to his home country in violation of an earlier agreement has galvanized opposition to President Donald Trump's deportation agenda.

The U.S. government now plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia.

A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.

The Trump administration is pushing again to deport a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini.

A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human smuggling charges could amount to illegal retaliation.

A U.S. immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A man who was wrongfully deported from the United States to his native El Salvador has been moved from a Virginia detention center to a facility in Pennsylvania.

A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country.

Ghanaian authorities insist on their claim that the group of 14 African immigrants deported to Ghana by the U.S. have been returned to their home countries.

A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to detail how it's trying to stop Ghana from deporting migrants to other countries in Africa in defiance of U.S. court orders.

The Trump administration is fighting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid to apply for asylum.

CBS says it will no longer allow editing of newsmaker interviews on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation.”.

It’s a case that’s captured national attention, and now Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held right here in Virginia. Senator Mark Warner traveled to the Farmville detention center where he is being held.

Lawyers for five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July say they have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or explanation and with no access to legal counsel.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, say he wants to seek asylum in the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in a Virginia detention center and facing deportation to Uganda.

The White House says a judge's decision to throw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against all federal judges in Maryland is a direct assault on the president’s ability to enforce immigration laws.

Opposition figures and others in Uganda are criticizing a deal with the United States to accept deported migrants.

Efforts by U.S. immigration officials to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, a country to which the Salvadoran national has no ties, has again focused attention third-country deportations.

President Donald Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve board Member Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after checking in with immigration officials on Monday in Baltimore.

U.S. immigration officials say they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.

A jail release order from a Tennessee court requires Kilmar Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he'll be in home detention with his brother as his custodian.

The Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined a plea deal involving deportation to Costa Rica.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge to dismiss a human smuggling case against him.

The Senate has confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.

A federal judge in Maryland has prohibited the Trump administration from taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immediate immigration custody if he’s released from jail in Tennessee while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.

The Senate has narrowly voted to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who entered the U.S. as a child has been sent back to his home country after being deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison earlier this year.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge in Tennessee to delay releasing him from jail while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.

A federal judge in Tennessee says he won't immediately rule on whether to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from jail as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.

President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term.

A federal judge in Maryland has scolded the Trump administration for its “utter refusal” to detail deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Trump administration hasn’t decided where it would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he is freed from a Tennessee jail.

The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison, contradicting public statements by officials in both countries.

A U.S. government attorney says it will initiate deportation proceedings against Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he's released from jail before trial on human smuggling charges.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration deported him to in March, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from his lawyers that he could be deported if he’s released.

Court records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.

Prosecutors have agreed with a request by Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers to delay his Tennessee jail release.

The Justice Department says it intends to try Kilmar Abrego Garcia on federal smuggling charges in Tennessee before it moves to deport him to a country that is not his native El Salvador.

A Justice Department official nominated to become a federal appeals court judge says he never told department attorneys to ignore court orders, denying the account of a whistleblower who detailed a campaign to defy judges to carry out President Donald Trump's deportation plans.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in jail for at least a few more days while attorneys in the federal smuggling case against him spar over whether prosecutors can prevent his deportation if he is released to await trial.

A federal appeals court in New York has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El Salvador roughly 30 minutes after the court suspended an order to remove him from the U.S. Tuesday's ruling in Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron’s case marks at least the fourth time this year that President Donald Trump’s administration has been ordered to facilitate the return of somebody mistakenly deported.

A top Justice Department official suggested the Trump administration might have to ignore court orders as it prepared to deport Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members, a fired department lawyer alleged in a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in jail in Tennessee as he awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges.

A Tennessee judge has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from jail while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges, but he is not expected to be allowed to go free.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges in federal court in Tennessee.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge in Maryland to impose fines and other sanctions against the Trump administration.

The fight over the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador now returns to the U.S. court system.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been charged by the Trump administration with transporting people who were in the country illegally.

A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing to invalidate the Trump administration's deal to house detainees in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Attorneys for a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico say he has landed in California.

A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of several court documents in the lawsuit over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation.

The Trump administration says it's working to return a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico over his fears of being harmed there.

The Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months.

A federal judge has told the Trump administration that its explanation for state secrets privilege in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is "inadequate."

Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic resolution to require more transparency from the Trump administration about deportations to El Salvador.

The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions about its mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a household name as the Trump administration wages an intense legal battle to keep him locked up in an El Salvador prison despite his mistaken deportation.

The Trump administration has called journalists “despicable,” even questioned the patriotism of some, as part of its vigorous response to criticism in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly sent by immigration officials to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration about deportations to El Salvador.

A federal judge has again directed the Trump administration to provide information about efforts to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.

President Donald Trump says “I could” bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted.

For President Donald Trump's administration, the numbers on executive orders, deportations, reductions in the federal workforce and tariffs in his first 100 days back in the White House point toward a renewed America.

The White House is opening a weeklong celebration of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office.

The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.

In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him.

A new poll finds President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration remains a point of strength as he takes wide-ranging action to ramp up deportations and target people in the U.S. illegally.

The Trump administration was handed a rapid-fire series of court losses Wednesday night and Thursday in lawsuits filed over its policies on immigration, elections and its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools.

A judge nominated by President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to facilitate the return of a man deported to El Salvador despite having a pending asylum application.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace faced criticism over legal wrangling concerning universities and allegations of antisemitism during a town hall at a gated island community in her South Carolina district.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is the latest judge at odds with the Trump administration.

Iowans attending a forum hosted by Sen. Chuck Grassley started to turn on each other as the lawmaker faced heated questions about President Donald Trump’s first months in office.

A federal judge has temporarily halted her order directing the government to explain what it’s done to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis came Wednesday, just one day after she blasted the Trump administration for ignoring her orders by refusing to provide information.

A federal judge says the Trump administration is ignoring court orders, obstructing the legal process and acting in “bad faith” by refusing to provide information about the steps they have taken, if any, to free a mistakenly deported man from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. Tuesday's order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis gives the Trump administration until Wednesday evening to explain exactly why officials think the information should be considered protected state...

Four House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for who he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.

Chris Van Hollen has emerged, for now, as a leading figure in the resistance to President Donald Trump.