Obama-Appointed Judge Claims ICE Can’t Immediately Arrest Suspected Gangbanger

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia once he’s released from criminal custody.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued an emergency ruling that prohibits the Trump administration from taking the Salvadoran illegal migrant into 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for 72 hours after he is released from custody in Nashville, Tennessee, according to court documents. The suspected gangbanger is currently in jail for his alleged involvement in a years-long migrant smuggling operation.

Xinis, appointed to the bench by the Obama administration, repeatedly ripped the Trump administration in her Wednesday decree.

“Defendants have done little to assure the Court that absent intervention, Abrego Garcia’s due process rights will be protected,” the federal judge said, according to court documents.

“Separately, the requested notice is necessary to prevent a repeat of Abrego Garcia’s unlawful deportation to El Salvador by way of third-country removal,” Xinis continued. “Defendants have taken no concrete steps to ensure that any prospective third country would not summarily return Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in an end-run around the very withholding order that offers him uncontroverted protection.”

The Obama judge also ordered Abrego Garcia to be returned to the ICE Order of Supervision at the Baltimore Field Office, the closest ICE facility in Maryland, where he was originally arrested by deportation officers earlier this year, according to her order.