Judge grants Kilmer Abrego Garcia release from ICE as he fights criminal charges

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A federal judge has cleared Kilmer Abrego Garcia Freedom from Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention continues as Salvadoran immigrant continues fight criminal charges Brought about by the administration of Donald Trump.

Thursday’s ruling Maryland District Judge Paula Zinis granted his “immediate” release.

Abrego García was deported by mistake Brutal prison in his home country in MarchA high-profile legal battle for their return became central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

Government lawyers acknowledged they were fired because of a procedural error, and several federal judges and a unanimous Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration To “facilitate” his return after his “illegal” arrest.

But the government spent weeks battling court orders for his return while administration officials launched a volley of public attacks and declared he would never set foot in the country again.

A federal judge has granted the release of Kilmer Abrego Garcia after he was returned to ICE custody and threatened with removal, again, shortly after U.S. authorities brought him back from a brutal Salvador prison only to face criminal charges this summer.

A federal judge has granted the release of Kilmer Abrego Garcia after he was returned to ICE custody and threatened with removal, again, shortly after U.S. authorities brought him back from a brutal Salvador prison only to face criminal charges this summer. ,AP,

He was abruptly returned to the United States in June, only to face charges that he had illegally moved other immigrants across the country. He has pleaded not guilty.

abrego garcia was Released from pre-trial detention in that caseBut ICE quickly re-arrested him, and resumed a legal battle to deport him before he could face trial for the charges against him.

Since then, the Trump administration has He was tried for deportation to at least six different countriesWhich includes African countries Eswatini, Ghana, Liberia and Uganda.

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Abrego García’s legal team has said he is prepared to leave the country for Costa Rica, an offer that the Trump administration rescinded because it did not agree to his condition that he plead guilty to human trafficking charges.

Costa Rica’s offer to grant Abrego García “residency and refugee status” is and always has been firm, unwavering and unconditional, Zinis wrote Thursday.

In his order, the judge rebuked administration officials for repeatedly disobeying court orders and suggested that the government’s “conduct” in his case “gives the lie” to arguments that his ongoing ICE detention “is for the fundamental purpose of removing him.”

“The government’s refusal to remove them to Costa Rica amid persistent threats of removal from a series of African countries that have expressed no or limited willingness to take them can only be construed as punitive and contrary to the purposes of ICE detention,” they wrote.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the order “naked judicial activism.”

“This order has no valid legal basis and we will continue to fight this issue vigorously in court,” he said. Independent.

A wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant is fighting separate criminal charges that his lawyers argue were made against him solely in retaliation for his successful challenge of his immigration case.

A wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant is fighting separate criminal charges that his lawyers argue were made against him solely in retaliation for his successful challenge of his immigration case. ,AP,

Inside El Salvador’s terrorism detention centerLawyers allege that Abrego García and dozens of other deportees experienced “severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition and psychological torture” for several weeks.

Upon returning to the United States in June, Abrego García briefly reunited with his wife and U.S. citizen children in Maryland, where he has been living and working as a sheet metal worker since entering the country without legal permission as a teenager in 2012.

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In 2019 an immigration judge determined that he could not be deported to El Salvador due to credible fears of gang violence from a group targeting his family.

Zinis has given Abrego Garcia a similar “stay of removal” order that prevents ICE from immediately deporting him.

Separately, Abrego García is pressuring a different federal judge overseeing his criminal case to drop the charges against him. Citing retaliatory and selective prosecutionHis lawyers argue that he has been “set aside by the United States government,”

“Rather correct your mistake and come back.” [him] For the United States, the government fought at every level of the federal court system,” the lawyers wrote in a court filing. “And at every level, [he] won. This case is the result of a concerted effort by the government to punish those who had the audacity to fight back rather than accept brutal injustice.

Independent Abrego Garcia’s attorneys have been requested to comment.

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