Fate of Abrego Garcia hangs as judge grills DOJ on removal order

GREENBELT, MD — Lawyers for Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia urged a federal judge in Maryland on Thursday to prohibit the Trump administration from deporting their client to the third country of Liberia, the latest twist in a nine-month legal fight that has garnered international attention and dominated headlines and court dockets for months. That effort appeared stunted Thursday, after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis tried and failed to answer a more fundamental question of whether the government had obtained a final order of removal to deport Abrego Garcia from the U.S. Without that