Posted on 06/22/2025 6:31:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee plans to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges.
But Abrego Garcia is not expected to go free because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will likely take him into custody and possibly try to deport him.
In a ruling on Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the U.S. government’s motion to keep Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial. She scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to discuss the conditions of his release.
The U.S. government has already filed a motion to appeal the judge’s decision and is asking the judge to stay her impending release order.
Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty on June 13 to smuggling charges that his attorneys have characterized as an attempt to justify his mistaken deportation in March to a notorious prison in El Salvador after the fact. That hearing was the first chance the Maryland construction worker had in a U.S. courtroom to answer the Trump administration’s allegations.
The smuggling charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop for speeding in Tennessee during which Abrego Garcia was driving a vehicle with nine passengers. Although officers suspected possible smuggling, he was allowed to go on his way with only a warning.
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We aren’t going to get a ruling from them.
Should have left his butt in El Salvador
I knew this would happen the second Bondi brought him back seriously what an idiot she didn’t see this coming my 4 yr old nephew saw this coming she better have a back up plan
This is why Ay-Pee is banned from the Oval Office.
Feral Judges are American Kings?
Anyone who didn’t expect it hasn’t been paying attention.
It doesn’t help that Nashville’s illegals-loving mayor will do all he can to keep ICE from nabbing him again when he’s released. And they need to nab him.
Agree. Bindis been quiet lately so maybe she’s been preparing the Epstein files, or the Trump shooter info or JFK or J6 or Las Vegas shooter 2017....
Blondi
bkmk
We have 7 days left to get the Supreme Court to do this. Has a lawsuit been even started? Maybe have it ready for October?
The smuggling charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop was allowed to go on his way with only a warning.
Another democrat gift to illegals.
He definitely does not deserve to be running free.
He has no such authority. Ignore him.
Notice the sympathetic attempt to characterize the guy as “a Maryland construction worker.”
He’s a Salvadoran who human trafficks labor into the US construction market.
Some of these foreign gangs provide labor and know how to organize just like a union —and extortion is second nature to them.
TdA for example was born 8n Venezuela but has spread beyond:
snip...The Tren de Aragua was born from a union in Aragua state, west of Caracas. The union represented the workers of the construction of a railroad (hence the name, Aragua’s Train) that would have passed through the state of Aragua. The project was never finished, the money disappeared, and no one knew what happened-—a common occurrence in Chavez’s Venezuela.
The workers started with typical shady union deals, charging for the allocation of workers and extorting contractors. Some of its members were sentenced for their crimes and sent to the Tocorón prison, one of the largest and most dangerous prisons in Venezuela. There, they got in touch with the now-leader of the gang, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, better known as “Niño Guerrero,” who was serving a sentence for killing a policeman and started expanding their operations..../snip
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