The Department of Justice has formally selected Liberia as the removal destination for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, secured through diplomatic assurances, prompting sharp rebuke from Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) who contends the action circumvents Garcia’s due process rights amid pending criminal allegations.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered El Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility where he was being held in Pennsylvania.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday evening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in an El Salvador prison after wrongly being deported from Maryland. Van Hollen, D-Md., confirmed the meeting in a post on X with a picture of the two talking.

Baltimore again served as a backdrop for the contentious immigration battle pitting Kilmar Abrego Garcia against the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement efforts.

Maryland man Kilmar Armando Ábrego García was released from immigration services on Thursday after a federal judge ordered he be freed from detention immediately. The father is set to return to his family in Maryland after his evening release, the Associated Press reported.

A Maryland immigration case has drawn national and international attention, raising a central question: Where is home for Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Abrego Garcia is a 30-year-old sheet metal apprentice who lived with his wife and children in Beltsville before he was mistakenly deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador,