Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. , right, meets with Maryland resident Kilmer Abrego Garcia and is mistakenly deported to El Salvador by Ice Agent. (Photo courtesy of Van Hollen’s Office)

This report has been updated.

GREENBERT, Maryland — The Trump administration plans to remit Kilmer Abrego Garcia to a third country once the Justice Department is released from public federal custody during an emergency court hearing Thursday.

Lawyers for illegally deported Abrego Garcia made an urgent request Thursday to bring him back to Maryland while his criminal case continued.

The move by the lawyers follows an earlier official statement from Trump administration officials that he would banish Abrego Garcia to El Salvador when he was released from Tennessee federal court on Friday. However, on Thursday it appeared that the plan had shifted to deportation somewhere else.

DOJ lawyer Jonathan Ginn said the Trump administration plans to deport Abrego Garcia, “third countries have my understanding.”

“He will begin custody and removal procedures (US immigration and customs enforcement),” Ginn said of Abrego Garcia’s release. “There is no immediate plan to move him to a third country.”

Cinis rejected a request to Maryland to return him, claiming that Abrego Garcia has not been released and that it is not clear whether he has jurisdiction to meet such a request.

She added that Ginn said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had no “immediate plans” to deport Abrego Garcia to third countries.

This week the Supreme Court, For now, the Trump administration has decided that it will allow it to continue deportation into third countries after a Massachusetts judge banned the removal without proper notice. In such cases, immigrants could be deported to a country that is not their home country and far from them.

Jonathan Cooper, a partner of Quinn Emmanuel, who represents Abrego Garcia in his immigration case, tried to ask Sinis if he would require the Trump administration to notify Cooper and his team before deporting him to a third country.

“There is concern that the government may try to move Abrego Garcia quickly over the weekend,” Cooper said.

Sinis said the Trump administration had no “immediate plan” to eliminate Abrego Garcia.

Cooper filed the same concerns on Thursday in a written emergency request to Xinis.

“The official government statement has little doubt about its plan. We will remove Abrego Garcia once more in El Salvador.” According to the complaint Written by Quinn Emmanuel’s lawyer.

“If this court does not act promptly, the government is likely to whisk Abrego Garcia into a place far from Maryland.”

Federal prosecutors at Tennessee Court He could soon be arrested by ice agents saying that Abrego Garcia should be released, and despite being protected from such removal from 2019 and still face deportation in El Salvador.

Tennessee case

Abrego Garcia condemned “conspiracy to illegally transport illegal aliens for illegal interests” and “illegal transport of illegal aliens in the face of federal criminal charges filed in Tennessee from El Salvador earlier this month.

The charges occurred while Abrego Garcia was in prison in Salvador.

Human smuggling fees stem from Tennessee’s 2022 traffic stops when police attracted Abrego Garcia for speeding. Eight other men were in the car, but neither Abrego Garcia nor the passenger were arrested.

DHS began an investigation into the 3-year-old’s stop, and Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference on the day Abrego Garcia was returned to the US to face federal charges.

She argued that the traffic stop was part of a long-standing human smuggling scheme paid by members of the MS-13 gang to transport migrants who entered the country without legal permission to destinations around the country.

His lawyer denied the charges, and Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty in federal court in Nashville.

Stephen Miller, the lead architect of many of the president’s immigration policies and a senior adviser to the White House, wrote on social media that if Abrego Garcia is released he will be deported to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers point to the statement as to why he wants to be brought back to Maryland.

The Trump administration has alleged that Abrego Garcia is the leader of the MS-13 gang, and President Donald Trump has filed the same allegation. In an interview, the president posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s knuckle, which has been digitally changed to the MS-13 type of finger.

House Democrats I pressed Kristi Noem’s DHS secretary in May. Regarding the doctor’s photos, she avoided questions about whether the photos were genuine.

She added that even if Abrego Garcia is returned to the US, he will be deported soon.

Maryland debate

In Maryland, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said in their complaints that he would not be deported again.

“The claim does not ask this court to award Abrego Garcia’s custody status in the Tennessee criminal case, as the Tennessee District Court will resolve it,” they wrote.

“The claim does not attempt to change any of the terms of release set by the Tennessee District Court or interfere in a criminal case in Tennessee. The move calls for this to be ensured by returning to the district (other than travelling to Tennessee if necessary) when Abrego Garcia is released from criminal custody.”

Abrego Garcia lives with his family in Maryland. “The moment Maryland began its illegal removal story on March 12, when an ice agent arrested him “without a warrant for arrest and no legal basis,” locked him up at an ice facility “in Baltimore, Maryland,” the complaint said.

“When Abrego Garcia is returned to Maryland, we will implement the Supreme Court order and protect the jurisdiction of this court.”

Clash between the administration and the judge

Abrego Garcia’s illegal deportation drew public attention to the Trump administration’s aggressive mass expulsion campaign, in which some judges discovered the right to a legitimate process for immigration. The White House clashed with the judicial department over the frequency of immigration decisions.

This week’s Trump administration With an abnormal movement, He sued the entire Maryland District Court judicial bench, including Sinnis, and ordered to request a two-day suspension for deportation, following allegations of a massive popular corpus from immigrants who challenged state detention. Habeas Corpus’ claim allows immigrants to challenge detention.

Abrego Garcia had been deported from his country since 2019, but in March he was arrested in Maryland by federal immigration officials while driving his son home, and reported that he had changed his position. A few days later, he was deported to the infamous prison in El Salvador. The Trump administration’s actions that he admitted were wrong were wrong.

April, The Supreme Court ruled The Trump administration had to “promote” Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, but has stopped calling for it.

For the next two months, administrative authorities will testify in a Maryland court that Abrego Garcia’s return has fallen out of his hand and has led to the Salvadoran government.

Sinis has accused the Trump administration of Stonewalling information and allows the findings in the civil case to continue to decide whether the Trump administration violated her court order to return Abrego Garcia.