A judge said on June 25 that she would order the pre-trial release without bail of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national deported to his home country earlier this year, but that he would likely be taken into immigration custody immediately.
Abrego Garcia, 29, entered the United States illegally more than a decade ago. The Trump administration has alleged that he is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang and deported him to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March, despite a 2019 judicial order barring his removal to his home country.
His lawyers have denied the government’s claims, and he was returned to the United States earlier this month after a court ruling determined that he should not have been deported….