JUDGE QUESTIONS Trump plans to send Salvadoran to Liberia over trial

The Trump administration was signed by a federal judge on Monday during a hearing that it would prefer to remove salvaroran kilvadoran kilvadoran kilmar abrego garcia to Africa rather than pursue illegal immigration charges.

Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland brought in a Justice Department lawyer for the plans, asking if the administration would remove Arego Garcia from Liberia this week if legal hurdles could be overcome. Xinis currently has command in the area preventing abrego garcia from being sent off.

“I was told that if there was no denial, we would remove him on Friday,” said Doj attorney Drew Ensign.

Xinis pressed the Ensign about Arego Garcia’s criminal case in Tennessee, and it responded by saying he didn’t know how to discuss that case. The judge expressed doubts about the timing of the deportation of the management.

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Xinis noted that a high-pressure hearing is taking place next week where the Doj will bring criminal charges against Abrego Garcia after admitting he was mistakenly released from a Salvadoran prison at the beginning.

“I don’t believe that a criminal case can go forward if there is no complainant,” said Xinis, “I put in, I’m trying to find out how useful this day is, why I had general information [in Tennessee] next week.”

Liberia is now the fourth African country proposed by the lawyers of the Trump administration after they applauded almost three others, Uganda, Ghana and Esatini, that may accept the call of Xinis to keep him in the United States.

The judge noted that the Department of Homeland Security wanted to deport him and the DOJ’s position of wanting to take him to trial did not add that he suspected other reasonable behind-the-scenes conversations.

Xinis said: “It does not pass the test of rapture that there was never any connection.

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Kilmar Arego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was sent to El Salvador, is seen wearing a Chicago Bulls hat, this time. (Arego Garcia Family / Handout via Reuters)

Alego Garcia’s defense lawyer Simon Sandoval – Moshenberg told the judge that his group was not arrested or free in Liberia and that they will accuse him of not being recaptured in El Salvador, where he established a credible fear of persecution.

Sandoval – Moshenberg also indicated that Arego Garcia is open to deportation to Costa Rica, the only country that has openly agreed to give him asylum and not send him back to El Salvador.

Xinis raised questions about the administration’s decision to extradite him from Costa Rica, after Abrego Garcia’s lawyers had previously accused the federal government of pleading guilty in his criminal case in Tennessee.

A Federal Judge temporarily banned Arego Garcia from exile in Uganda

Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem accused judges of “activists” release of Kilmar Arego Garcia, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo / George Walker IV, File)

“Any insight you can throw out because why are we continuing this hearing when you can get him out of a third country tomorrow?” Xinis asked, adding, “Now we are going to burn important resources … now to talk about the fourth African country.”

FOX News Digital has reached out to the DoJ for comment.

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In August, when the lawyers of Alego Garcia began to tell the court about the floating doj rica as part of the Plea request, said the spokesperson of the DoJ talking about the only person’s case because he presents a “clear danger” to the public. Arego Garcia pleaded guilty to the charges.

“This defendant can plead guilty and accept responsibility or stand trial in front of a judge,” said the agency’s spokesperson. “Either way, we will hold Arego Garcia accountable and protect the American people.”

FOX News Digital’s Brean Depenpisch and Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.