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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the release from ICE custody of illegal alien and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, be released from the ICE Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa., on the grounds that the Trump administration had not obtained the final notice of removal order that is needed to deport him to a third country, including a list of African nations they had previously identified for his removal.
"Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority," Xinis said in her order on Thursday.
She claims in her memorandum opinion that he has been re-detained without lawful authority since he was returned earlier this year from El Salvador to be tried for numerous crimes committed in the United States.
She says that's the reason she ordered his release.
You can read the memorandum here.