GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Kilmar Ábrego Garcia on Tuesday will be back in federal court, where the federal government will continue its attempt to deport him in an 18-month saga that began when he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador last year.
The government is moving to vacate a preliminary injunction put in place by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis preventing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining and deporting Ábrego Garcia to the West African country of Liberia. His legal team is seeking to make the injunction permanent. The judge left previous orders in place last December and ordered him released from custody.
The Salvadoran national’s case became a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to an African country as proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials.
Ábrego Garcia argued that if he were going to be deported, it should be to Costa Rica, which previously agreed to take him. But Todd Lyons, the former acting director of ICE, said in a March 2026 memo that deporting Ábrego Garcia to Costa Rica would be “prejudicial to the United States," because the U.S. had expended resources and political capital negotiating with Liberia to accept third-country nationals.
The push for deportation to Liberia continued even after the U.S. signed an agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries.
“The government is leading the same rodeo as many times before. Sending Kilmar to Costa Rica is on the table. However, the government continues to punish him for pursuing his constitutional rights and seeks to ship him to Liberia," said Jossie Flor Sapunar, the national communications director for We Are CASA, an activist group that has supported Ábrego Garcia and his family and intends to be at the courthouse. “Kilmar has become an international symbol of due process, a symbol which the Trump administration wants to silence.”
She added in an email that the family deserves privacy, either at home in Maryland or in Costa Rica.
Ábrego Garcia, 31, has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager. In 2019, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador because he faced danger there from a gang that had threatened his family.
He was arrested in Baltimore in March 2025 after picking up his then-5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother’s house, according to court papers.
Ábrego Garcia was then sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT, which activists say is rife with abuses and where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside. ICE officials admitted in court filings that his deportation there was an “administrative error.”
Facing public pressure and a court order, President Donald Trump's Republican administration brought him back in June 2025, but only after securing an indictment charging him with human smuggling in Tennessee. A federal judge dismissed that case in May 2026, finding that the Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges was designed to punish Ábrego Garcia for challenging his deportation. The government is appealing.
FILE - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, arrives at the federal courthouse Feb. 26, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising Tuesday and on track to hit an all-time high after oil prices gave back some of their big recent gains.
The S&P 500 added 0.8% and was on pace to finish the day above its record set in August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 265 points, or 0.5%, as of 11 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was adding 0.8% to its own all-time high set the day before.
Stocks got a boost after the price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, dropped 2% to $98.30 per barrel. That’s down from nearly $110 a few weeks ago, and the easing removes some pressure from the high inflation that’s squeezing people and businesses worldwide.
It also helped relax some of the tension that’s built up in the bond market, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 5.25% from 5.31% late Monday. Yields worldwide have recently been hitting their highest levels in years or even decades, which slows the economy by making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money and by making investors less willing to pay high prices for stocks.
On Wall Street, Constellation Energy jumped to one of the market’s biggest gains after rising 13%.
It announced a long-term deal to supply Google with about as much electricity as a new nuclear reactor makes. The boom in data centers for artificial-intelligence technology has made not just electricity more in demand but also construction crews and materials throughout the economy.
Option Care Health soared 32.7% after CD&R and McKesson said they’re buying the provider of infusion services. The two are paying $32.05 for each Option Care Health share, valuing it at roughly $5.8 billion.
CDR is a private investment firm. Shares of McKesson, the healthcare services company, added 0.2%.
One of the biggest reasons the U.S. stock market has been able to rally near records despite high inflation, expensive oil and worries in the bond market is that profits for companies have remained remarkably strong.
Lamb Weston, which sells frozen fries and other potato products, said on Tuesday that its profit and revenue during its latest quarter topped its projections, for example. The results also beat analysts’ expectations, and its stock rallied 10.8%.
CEO Mike Smith said the company continues to deal with unexpected increases in freight and other expenses as inflation remains high. But the company nevertheless raised its forecast for an underlying measure of profit for its full fiscal year.
Expectations are high for companies across industries, as they prepare to report how much profit they made from July through September. Delta Air Lines will report its third-quarter results on Friday, with several of the country's biggest banks following up the next week.
For companies in the S&P 500, analysts are forecasting a third straight quarter of growth above 25%, according to FactSet. Along with how high interest rates are, how much profit companies are making are the big levers that help to set prices for stocks.
In stock markets abroad, indexes ticked higher in Europe as yields continue to swing in their bond markets amid concerns about high government debts and tight budgets.
In France, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in support of protests by students demanding more funding for schools.
In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.1%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 1%, but South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.9%.
AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Constellation Energy.
FILE - Commuters emerge from a Wall Street subway station in New York's Financial District on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown in New York's Financial District on Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
A currency trader reacts near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A currency trader passes by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A currency trader passes by a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
