30-year-old Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania, hours after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had been “holding him illegally” for nearly four months.
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In her ruling, Judge Xinis wrote that the government had detained Abrego Garcia “without lawful authority,” that no valid final order of removal existed, and that indefinite civil detention could not be used as punishment or without a legitimate deportation purpose.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, legal director at the Legal Aid Justice Center and one of Abrego Garcia’s attorneys, confirmed the release to reporters Wednesday evening.
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He spent months in El Salvador’s CECOT prison before being flown back to the United States in August to face unrelated federal criminal human-smuggling charges — stemming from a 2019 arrest in Tennessee.
Although he was later released on bond in that criminal case and placed in the custody of his U.S.-citizen brother, ICE rearrested him during a routine check-in in Baltimore and transferred him to a detention center in Pennsylvania.
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Abrego Garcia remains under supervised release and is scheduled to report to ICE’s Baltimore field office on Friday. He still faces pending criminal federal smuggling charges in Nashville, Tennessee, though no trial date has been set.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from immigration detention center in Pennsylvania