Kilmar Abrego García, who was erroneously deported in March before being taken back to the United States, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee and goes to Maryland, a lawyer from Abrego García told Abc News.
The Salvadoran native has been in criminal custody since the federal government brought him back to the United States in June to face human smuggling positions.
Once he is released, immigration authorities will not be allowed to arrest Abrego García due to a ruling of a federal judge who ordered the government to return him to Maryland and blocked the administration to deport him after his release in Tennessee.
Abrego García’s lawyers said this week that they hired a private security company to take him to Maryland.
In his July order, the United States District Judge, Paula Xinis, ruled that the United States Government “will restore Abrego García to her ice supervision order outside the Baltimore field office.”
Xinis said that his order that Abrego García is placed under the supervision of ice in Maryland, where he lived with his wife and children before being deported by error in March, is necessary to “provide the type of effective relief to which an unjustly retired foreigner has the right to return.”
The July order, which also requires that the government provide 72 hours of prior notice if you intend to deport Abrego García to a third country, is “limited” to allow the Trump administration to start “legal immigration procedures on the return of Abrego García to Maryland.”
Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran migrant in this booklet image obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
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Immigration procedures may or may not include “legal arrest, detention and eventual elimination,” Xinis said.
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On Tuesday, Abrego García’s lawyers He accused federal prosecutors of “vindictive and selective prosecution” in a motion that seeks to dismiss criminal charges against him.
In the presentation of 25 pages, the lawyers argued that the Government accused him “because he refused to accept the violation of the government of his due process.”
“Kilmar Abrego García has been pointed out by the United States government,” said his lawyers.
Abrego García’s trial in his case of human smuggling will begin on January 27, 2027.
