‘Stalemate continues': Trump admin's appeal to deport Abrego to Liberia denied

Nbcwashington · Aug 13, 2026 · 432 words · By Paul Wagner

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government’s motion to dissolve an injunction forbidding the Trump administration from deporting to Liberia the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador last year.

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What happened

Why it matters

The administration has insisted on deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia instead of Costa Rica, where Abrego has agreed to go.

Common ground

But an injunction from Judge Paula Xinis forbids the government from going through with it, prompting the administration to appeal in April.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The administration has insisted on deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia instead of Costa Rica, where Abrego has agreed to go.”

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Three independent web search results explicitly state that the US/Trump administration planned to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia despite his agreement (and Costa Rica's agreement) to take him to Costa Rica.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. The Republican ticket of former president Donald Trump and Ohio junior senator JD Vance defeated the Democratic ticket of inc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center

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Claim 2: “First, it was Uganda, then it was Ghana.”

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Multiple sources confirm the attempt to deport him to Uganda. However, while the claim mentions Ghana, the provided evidence only explicitly mentions Uganda. There is no mention of Ghana in the provided evidence to corroborate that specific part of the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, his administration has pursued a deportation policy generally described as "hardline", "maximalist", and as a "mass deportation" ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_in_the_second_Trum…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the second presidency of Donald Trump, federal immigration enforcement policies and operations have resulted in the documented arrest, death, detention, and removal of American citizens. As of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_…

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Claim 3: “the criminal case against Abrego, a human smuggling case in Tennessee, was thrown out for vindictive and selective prosecution”

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Three independent sources confirm that a federal judge in Tennessee dismissed the human smuggling case against Abrego Garcia, specifically citing 'selective and vindictive prosecution'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Judge dismisses case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. 20 hours ago. Save for later.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — "Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a victim of a politicized, vindictive White House and its lawyers at what used to be an independent Justice Department," Abrego Garcia's criminal attorneys told ABC News in a …
https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-judge-dismisses-tenness…

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web search NEUTRAL — A federal judge in Tennessee dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal charges against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia Friday, ruling that the case against him amounted to a selective and…
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/kilmar-abrego-ga…

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Claim 4: “at a recent congressional hearing, new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers if Abrego wants to go to Costa Rica, the government will send him there.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic definitions of 'Secretary' and unrelated search results for the Iowa Secretary of State. There is no evidence provided regarding Markwayne Mullin or a congressional hearing about Abrego Garcia.

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web search NEUTRAL — A secretary, increasingly called an administrative assistant or administrative professional in the United States, is a person who provides office and administrative support to a business or organizati…
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web search NEUTRAL — What does the Secretary of State do? Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate has dedicated his life to public service. As Iowa's Commissioner of Elections, Secretary Pate is guided by three core principles:…
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 11, 2002 · Secretary: Directed by Steven Shainberg. With James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren. A timid young woman starts working for a demanding lawyer and finds a ne…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/

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Claim 5: “The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government’s motion to dissolve an injunction forbidding the Trump administration from deporting to Liberia the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador last year.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that the Trump administration sought to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia and that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (implied by the reference to Judge Wilkinson's opinion and the court's jurisdiction over Maryland) denied the government's motion to dissolve the injunction.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in case citations, 7th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts: Central Dist…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. They hear appeals in cases from the U.S. district courts and from certain federal administrativ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeal…

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Claim 6: “the Trump administration is appealing that ruling as well.”

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No evidence was provided for this claim in the search results.

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Claim 7: “prompting the administration to appeal in April.”

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Web search results confirm the Trump administration appealed Judge Xinis's decision/injunction, with one source specifically mentioning the appeals court backed Xinis.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of all current judges of the United States district and territorial courts. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide cases. There are 8…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March 2025, the United States deported 238 illegal immigrants from Venezuela alleged to be gang members to El Salvador, to be immediately and indefinitely imprisoned without trial and without priso…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2025_American_deportatio…

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Claim 8: “an injunction from Judge Paula Xinis forbids the government from going through with it”

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Web search results explicitly mention that an injunction from Judge Paula Xinis forbids the government from deporting Abrego Garcia to Liberia.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paula Xinis (; born Panagiota Xinis in 1968) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. She was appointed in 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Xinis

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Claim 9: “Abrego continues living with his family in Maryland.”

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Three independent sources confirm that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee jail and reunited with his family in Maryland.

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web search NEUTRAL — Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from jail and reunited with family. A Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported and then brought back to the US on criminal charges has been released from jail, his atto…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Sean Hecker, told Fox 17.As of Friday this week, Garcia has now been released from a Tennessee jail to return to Maryland under a stric…
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/kilmar-abrego-garcia-reuniting…

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web search NEUTRAL — Kilmar Abrego García is reunited with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura and the rest of their family in Maryland on August 22, 2025, after being released from detention in a Tennessee jail.
https://world-outlook.com/2025/09/11/an-injury-to-one-is-an-…

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