Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and later returned to the United States. He faced detention in El Salvador's mega-prison before being repatriated and placed in criminal custody on human smuggling charges. A judge granted protective status, finding that deportation back to El Salvador would endanger his safety. The judge ordered restoration of his ICE Order of Supervision in Baltimore, requiring placement under ICE supervision in Maryland where he lived with his wife and children. The federal government must provide 72 hours' notice before any attempt to deport him to a third country. He has been released from criminal custody and is heading back to Maryland.
FILE Katheryn Millwee holds a portrait of Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the federal courthouse on June 25, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration before being returned to the United States, has been released from criminal custody, according to ABC News. Abrego Garcia was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday and is heading back to Maryland with the help of private security, his attorney told ABC News.
Abrego Garcia's case became a flashpoint of contention in the early days of the Trump administration, which admitted he was deported by administrative error without any due process and was subsequently indefinitely imprisoned in El Salvador's notorious mega-prison. Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran native who has been in criminal custody facing human smuggling charges since he was returned to the U.S. in June.
In a July order, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote that the administration shall restore Abrego Garcia to his ICE Order of Supervision out of the Baltimore Field Office. Xinis said her order to have Abrego Garcia placed under ICE supervision in Maryland, where he was living with his wife and children before he was mistakenly deported in March, is necessary to provide the kind of effective relief to which a wrongfully removed alien is entitled upon return,' ABC News reported.
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