TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 24, 2025

Rulings from federal judges yesterday mean that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be released from jail in the coming weeks and put under the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Maryland, where he was living before being deported to and brought back from El Salvador. The Hill reports that U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville ordered him to be released pending trial on charges of human smuggling. Later in the day, another federal judge delayed that order for 30 days at the request of the defendant’s lawyers. Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland ordered that Abrego Garcia be transferred to supervised release under ICE's Baltimore office and that the agency give him 72 hours to appeal if it plans to deport him.