Ximena Bustillo

TPS for six more countries expire next year, and if they're not extended, the U.S.

may have no one under the program for the first time since it was created in 1990.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Judge Palazzini's in Maryland extended a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Homeland Security Department from placing Abrego-Garcia in immigration detention.

She gave the government attorneys until later this week to explain what they'd do should she lift that order.

Ziniz issued the protection order earlier this month and also granted Abrego Garcia's petition to be released from custody.

Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S.

illegally, had been living in Maryland but was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by mistake.

The government eventually brought him back to the U.S.

and charged him with human smuggling.

Abrego Garcia denies those allegations and is fighting this and his immigration case across several courts.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Judge Paula Zienes in Maryland extended a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Homeland Security Department from placing Abrego Garcia in immigration detention.

She gave the government attorneys until later this week to explain what they'd do should she lift that order.

Zienes issued the protection order earlier this month and also granted Abrego Garcia's petition to be released from custody.

Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S.

illegally, had been living in Maryland, but was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by mistake.

The government eventually brought him back to the U.S.

and charged him with human smuggling.

Abrego Garcia denies those allegations and is fighting this and his immigration case across several courts.