Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant wrongly deported to El Salvador by President Donald Trump’s administration only to be returned to the United States to face criminal charges, is due back in court on Wednesday for a judge in Tennessee to set the conditions of his release from jail.
Nashville-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ruled on Sunday that the administration could not continue to detain Abrego, 29, pending trial on two charges accusing him of conspiring with at least five other members of a smuggling ring to bring migrants to the United States illegally.
Abrego, a Salvadoran national who had been living in Maryland, has pleaded not guilty. His case has become emblematic of the Republican president’s aggressive immigration crackdown and the pushback from rights groups.
His lawyers have called the charges an effort by the administration to justify its violation of Abrego’s rights by deporting him to El Salvador despite a 2019 judicial order barring such a move on the grounds that he could face persecution by gangs in his home country.
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