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Judge issues temporary order to block officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García

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Kilmar Ábrego García, a day after his release from criminal custody, in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

A federal judge on Friday morning issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García just hours before he was scheduled to appear at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore.

His lawyers asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again. The judge says officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order.

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