The order followed back-to-back rulings that ordered Abrego's release and blocked his detention by immigration authorities in Tennessee.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man at the center of a long-running legal and political controversy over U.S. immigration enforcement, must be released from custody and returned to Maryland, two federal judges ruled Wednesday in separate decisions.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis barred federal immigration authorities from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody once he is released from criminal confinement in Tennessee.

Suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in a Tennessee jail for at least another month and cannot be immediately detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers

A magistrate judge in Tennessee has paused accused MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from criminal custody for 30 days, shortly after a separate judge ruled he should be returned to Maryland if released while awaiting trial.

A federal judge in Maryland has prohibited the Trump administration from taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immediate immigration custody if he’s released from jail in Tennessee while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.

A federal judge in Tennessee said the Trump administration failed to prove Abrego Garcia was a danger to the community or a member of MS-13.

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration from taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immediate immigration custody if he’s released from jail in Tennessee, where he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.