{"id":5031,"date":"2026-01-10T23:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:06:31","slug":"ice-doesnt-plan-to-detain-kilmar-abrego-garcia-again-as-long-as-judges-order-banning-it-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/10\/ice-doesnt-plan-to-detain-kilmar-abrego-garcia-again-as-long-as-judges-order-banning-it-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE doesn\u2019t plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as judge\u2019s order banning it stands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, has become the center of a high-profile legal battle after the Trump administration was accused of &#8220;vindictive prosecution&#8221; for charging him with human smuggling only after he won a wrongful deportation case. Although officials previously alleged he had gang ties, Abrego-Garcia has no criminal record and has pleaded not guilty to the smuggling charges, which stem from a 2022 traffic stop where he originally received only a warning. Unsealed court documents suggest that high-level Justice Department officials fast-tracked his indictment as a &#8220;top priority,&#8221; leading a federal judge to question the government&#8217;s motives and trustworthiness. Currently, a judge has barred ICE from re-detaining him while the criminal case proceeds, with a key hearing on the motion to dismiss the charges scheduled for late January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 31, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-el-salvador-d10d1b3dc65330ad0e3f67b92e92d21e\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, has become the center of a high-profile legal battle after the Trump administration was accused of &#8220;vindictive prosecution&#8221; for charging him with human smuggling only after he won a wrongful deportation case. Although officials previously alleged he had gang ties, Abrego-Garcia has no criminal record and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}