Straight outta NASHVILLE News. The 30-year-old Maryland man at the center of the Trump administration's deportation scandal the liberals keep crying about. You know the guy who is a criminal here illegally? Well the plan to send him back home to a Salvadoran mega-prison will have to wait a bit as he was released from custody Aug. 22, more than five months after his arrest and original deportation. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, is now set to return to his wife and children as his deportation case continues in a winding court battle that spans multiple states and countries. Even coming before the U.S. Supreme Court.
So he's not out of hot water but his lawyers have sought to prevent him from being arrested once more by immigration officials. Attorney Sean Hecker told The Tennessean, part of USA TODAY Network, that Abrego Garcia was free and on his way to Maryland. "Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free," Hecker said in a statement.
Hecker said Abrego Garcia was let out of the Putnam County Jail, located about 80 miles east of Nashville. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes, on the federal bench in Tennessee, issued the terms of his release on Aug. 21 from an undisclosed facility where he was in the custody of U.S. Marshals. Holmes is a judge who was appointed during the Obama administration, and is herself a Democrat took this case on because this is what the liberals do. They have been trying to get a known Criminal brought back into our country so Obama's people took care of that. Think about this come mid terms.
A court order in a different case ensures he will not be immediately picked up by ICE agents in Tennessee. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, of Maryland, ruled on July 23 that the federal government must restore Abrego Garcia to his ICE order of supervision in Baltimore and give his attorneys at least 72 hours' notice of any plans to deport him. That means he could still be detained in Maryland, where his wife and three children live and have sought his return for months.
A sheetmetal worker living in suburban Washington, DC, Abrego Garcia became the face of President Donald Trump's sweeping and controversial deportation tactics. Abrego Garcia entered the country illegally around 2012 as a teen. Immigration officials issued a final order of removal in 2019, but they said he could not be released to his home country of El Salvador due to credible fears of persecution by gangs in that country.
His wife identified him in dramatic videos promoted by the Salvadoran government as one of the shackled men shuttled into the notorious prison, based on the scars on his head. The Trump administration labeled him an MS-13 gang member, without evidence. The government lawyers were frequently scolded by federal judges who dismissed the accusations against Abrego Garcia as baseless and ordered that he be returned to the United States, since he was illegally deported. A government lawyer assigned to the case became a whistleblower after the administration defied court orders.
When he was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, Abrego Garcia was under a court order that prohibited his deportation to El Salvador. Both the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said they couldn't return him to the United States, but he was returned nevertheless after the Justice Department filed smuggling charges in Tennessee stemming from a 2022 traffic stop. Officials have said they may deport Abrego Garcia to a different country.
Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, had fought for his release, appearing at court hearings in Maryland and Tennessee. Trump administration officials released details on family disputes, including allegations of domestic abuse, in their push to keep him in custody. His wife pushed back on those details and maintained her husband's innocence on the other charges. But we all know he's guilty folks he's on video, and everything plus he's here illegally. That alone makes him a criminal. So deportation for him is going to be his final verdict anyway they're only delaying the end of his story. This is political theater by our criminal minded Democrats.
Abrego Garcia's lawyers said they retained a private security firm to take him to Maryland once he is released from custody.