A U.S. immigration judge on Wednesday denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a proxy for the partisan power struggle over immigration policy. The judge in the Baltimore immigration court denied an application to reopen Abrego Garcia's 2019 asylum case, but that is not the final word. Abrego Garcia has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. He requested asylum but was not eligible because he had been in the country for more than a year. Facing a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, Trump's Republican administration returned Abrego Garcia to the U.S. in June, only to immediately charge him with human smuggling.