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Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:02 AM EDT, April 4, 2025

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to return him to the U.S.

The White House already has argued against the idea in legal briefs. They have cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member and assert that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction over the matter because the Salvadoran national is no longer in the U.S.

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The 29-year-old had a permit from the Department of Homeland Security to legally work in the U.S., his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said. Abrego Garcia served as a sheet metal apprentice and was pursuing his journeyman license.

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A 10 a.m. rally is scheduled on his behalf in Hyattsville, Maryland, and will include his wife. The court hearing is set for 1 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt outside of Washington, D.C.

Xinis
1:00 PM Motions Hearing
Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al
8:25-cv-00951-PX
Courtroom: 2C

Paula Xinis, District Judge
6500 Cherrywood Lane
Suite 255
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 344-0653

Judge Paula Xinis was born in 1968 in Mineola, New York. Judge Xinis attended Vassar College and the University of Virginia where she graduated with Highest Distinction in 1991 with a B.A. degree. Judge Xinis obtained her J.D. in 1997 from the Yale Law School.

Judge Xinis clerked from 1997 to 1998 for the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She then joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. There, Judge Xinis served as the Research and Writing Attorney Supervisor from 2008 to 2011, and as the Director of Training from 2006 to 2011. Judge Xinis also served as faculty for national and regional training programs sponsored by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Defender Services Division Training Branch. Judge Xinis has lectured on such topics as Effective Sentencing Mitigation, Amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, and Appellate Advocacy. Judge Xinis also taught Appellate Advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in the spring of 2000.

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