A federal judge on Wednesday said MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be deported until at least October.US District Judge Paula Xinis on Wednesday set an evidentiary hearing for October 6 after Abrego Garcia filed a lawsuit to block his deportation to Uganda. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week.He doesn’t belong here.He won’t be staying here.America is a safer nation without this MS-13 Gangbanger in it. Good riddance. pic.twitter.com/ecldKZvuw3— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 26, 2025 CNN reported:A federal judge is planning to have Trump administration officials testify in early October about the government’s efforts to re-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia and is prohibiting his removal from the US for several more weeks.US District Judge Paula Xinis on Wednesday set an evidentiary hearing for October 6. Xinis said she would rule within 30 days of the hearing and that Abrego Garcia must remain in the US until then.Abrego Garcia is expected to remain in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.In the meantime, his efforts to stave off another deportation will happen in other forums.Abrego Garcia was an illegal alien residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year and placed in the notorious CECOT prison, however, radical left-wing judges ordered him to be returned to the US.The wife-beater and gang member was previously ordered deported by an immigration judge, but he was not to be sent to his home country of El Salvador. So the Trump Administration decided to send him to Africa.Abrego Garcia immediately put up a legal fight to stop his deportation.“I fear persecution in Uganda on account of my race, nationality, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group. I also fear torture by or at the acquiescence of a public official in that country,” Abrego Garcia said on Saturday.On Monday, Judge Xinis temporarily blocked the Trump Admin from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia and set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday.Last month, a Tennessee-based federal judge previously ordered the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and a Maryland judge, appointed by Barack Obama, immediately blocked ICE from detaining Abrego Garcia.A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.The post Obama Judge Says MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Cannot be Deported Until At Least October appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.