A Years-Old Court Mistake Could Spell Good News For Infamous ‘Maryland Man’

The country’s most infamous illegal migrant could walk free due to an 🛂Immigration judge’s failure six years ago to take a crucial step in a court ruling.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gangbanger previously accused of repeated domestic abuse, is fighting deportation to Africa and criminal accusations that he participated in a years-long scheme to smuggle other illegal migrants into the country. However, the judge presiding over his deportation case reportedly argued that a 2019 ruling barring his repatriation to El Salvador failed to explicitly order him deported.

“There is no order of removal in the docket, in the record,” United States District Judge Paula Xinis stated during a Thursday hearing, according to Politico. “You can’t fake it ’til you make it. You got to have it.”

“You have to have the order,” Xinis continued. “It’s got to be an order memorialized somewhere and I don’t have it.”

Xinis’ comments were in reference to a 15-page order handed down by Baltimore 🛂Immigration Judge David Jones in October 2019. Jones at the time granted Abrego Garcia a withholding of removal order — which barred his repatriation to El Salvador due to his claims that he would likely face gang-related persecution if returned — but Jones did not specify where the illegal migrant was to be removed or that he even needed to leave the country.