A U.S. judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador back to the United States within three days, the latest legal setback for the administration's hardline deportation policies. Attorney for the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, spoke outside the courthouse after the ruling. - REUTERS
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00:00Judge Dennis granted the preliminary injunction and ordered that Kilmar Albrego Garcia be
00:06brought back to the United States by 1159 p.m. on Monday.
00:12She found that the government did not dispute that there was no legal basis whatsoever for
00:18his deportation.
00:20She found that the government's arguments that she was powerless to order him brought
00:25back to the United States were without legal merit.
00:28And she found that he was suffering irreparable harm with every day that goes by while he's
00:33separated from his family and while he's detained under such harsh conditions in the infamous
00:38Seacott prison.
00:39He's not being detained based on any Salvadoran legal process, but rather he's being detained
00:45because the United States government has requested that he be detained.
00:50And so for that reason, she found that the defendants do have the ability to bring him
00:55back to the United States, and she ordered it.
00:57I want to say thank you to everyone that has helped us, that has supported us in fighting
01:04this, and we will continue fighting for Kilmar, for my husband.