Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from federal prison in Tennessee
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador and accused of being a member of the Gang MS-13, was released from the Federal Guard Friday afternoon after the expiration of a 30-day break from a judge.
US magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes, in the District of the Middle of Tennessee, ordered Abrego’s release on Friday in a prison in the Nashville region, where he has been detained since his June release from Cecot d’El Salvador.
Abrego is on the way to his Maryland family, Sean Hecker, one of ABREGO’s lawyers, said in a statement.
Abrego was “illegally arrested and expelled, then imprisoned, all the whole due to the government’s vindictive attack against a man who had the courage to retaliate against the continuous aggression of the administration against the rule of law,” said Hecker.
Abrego lawyers asked for the 30 -day break which prevented their client from walking freely last month for fear of not being held by federal immigration and customs agents at its release.
This decision followed two others which aimed to protect Abrego.
In July, the American district judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville, Tennessee, sought to release Abrego. At the time, Crenshaw rejected a government request to block his release, writing that the Trump administration did not provide proof that Gorego must remain detained or that it is a risk of theft.
Last month, US District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland also judged that the US government “will restore Abrego Garcia to his Ice Baltimore Bureau’s Ice Field Office.
Xinis said that his order to have Abrego Garcia placed under the supervision of ice in Maryland, where he lived with his wife and children before being expelled in March, is necessary to “provide the effective type of relief to which a abroad abducted is entitled to his return”.
The July ordinance, which also requires that the government provides for a notice of 72 hours if it intends to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country, is “closely adapted” to allow the Trump administration to initiate “legitimate immigration procedures” when ABREGO GARCIA returns to Maryland.
The case of Abrego has become a subject of central discussion in the expulsion efforts of the Trump administration after a legal saga of several months.
Born in Salvador, Abrego lawyers previously declared that he illegally immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 to join his brother in Maryland for fear of gang violence in his country of origin.
He was first expelled to Cecot – the notorious mega -prison in Salvador – in March, in what the government called an “administrative error”.
The expulsion directly in conflict with the decision of a judge in 2019 according to which Abrego was not deported to the country and came after being detained by local police and accused of being a member of MS-13, an international crime gang. He was not put in ice in this case, and his family and friends have repeatedly denied his involvement in the group.
Abrego was returned to the United States in June and immediately charged by the federal conspiracy government to illegally transport illegal foreigners for a financial gain and illegal transport of illegal foreigners for a financial gain in Nashville.
He pleaded not guilty of the two accusations. A trial before a criminal jury in Tennessee for the trafficking in human beings remains for January.
