Trump Administration Again Detains AND THREATENS Kilmar Abrego Garcia!

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Abrego Garcia has fought the Trump administration multiple times and won. But Trump and company just can't quit violating Abrego's constitutional rights.

After DOJ lawyers lost a motion to keep him detained in connection with his criminal case in Tennessee, Abrego was released from prison and traveled home to his family in Maryland. However, when he went to his immigration appointment on Monday, Trump's officials put him back in custody again. Even worse, DOJ lawyers threatened Abrego that, if he didn't plead guilty to the Trumped-up criminal charges in Tennessee, they would deport him to Uganda. But if he did plead guilty (to crimes he says he didn't commit), then they would deport him to Costa Rica, where he would live as a free man.

Glenn says: This kind of threat is both vindictive and violative of constitutional due process guarantees.

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0:11.4	It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst, Glenn Kirshman.
0:30.4	ICE has once again detained Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia.
0:32.9	It is now threatening to deport him again.
0:36.2	Glenn talks about this next on Justice Matters.
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1:13.6	Hey all. Glenn Kirshner here.
1:16.7	So friends, you may recall that Abrago Garcia walked out of a Tennessee prison
1:22.7	where he was being held on some criminal charges in Tennessee.
1:28.3	And he was released.
1:30.3	He was released by the judge because he and his lawyers beat the hapless DOJ attorneys in a motion seeking to detain him.
1:41.3	They lost. He won. He was released, a free man, and he traveled home to Maryland
1:49.0	to be with his wife and his children. And then, on Monday, they grabbed him up again, detained him.
1:59.0	But Abrago Garcia is still fighting. Let's turn to the new reporting. This from NBC News.
2:10.9	Headline, Kilmar Abrago Garcia taken into ICE custody, but Judge Block's deportation for now. And that article begins.
2:22.5	Kilmar Abrago Garcia, who reunited with his family last week after 160 days apart, following
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